326 Pages
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Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
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Routledge
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Neil Corcoran's book is a major survey and interpretation of modern British poetry since 1940, offering a wealth of insights into poets and their work and placing them in a broader context of poetic dialogue and cultural exchange. The book is organised into five main parts, beginning with a consideration of the late Modernism of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden and ranging, decade by decade, from the... Read more
Part 1 (Dis)continuities and (Dis)placements After Modernism; Introduction; Chapter 1 Eliot or Auden; Chapter 2 Varieties of Parable, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Muir; Chapter 3 A Modernism in Place, David Jones, Basil Bunting; Part 2 From the Forties; Chapter 4 A New Romanticism, Dylan Apocalypse, Thomas, W.S. Graham, George Barker; Chapter 5 The Poetry of a Second War, Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis; Chapter 6 Two Solitudes, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas; Part 3 From the Fifties; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 7 A Movement Pursued, Philip Larkin; Chapter 8 Movements, Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Thorn Gunn; Chapter 9 Negotiations, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill; Part 4 From the Sixties; intro3 Introduction; Chapter 10 Some English Attitudes, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Hugo Williams, Ian Hamilton, David Harsent; Chapter 11 Barbarians and Rhubarbarians, Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison; Chapter 12 Varieties of Neo-Modernism, Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J.H. Prynne; Chapter 13 The Poetry of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon; Part 5 Since 1970; intro5 Introduction: Towards the Postmodern?; Chapter 14 In Ireland or Someplace: A Second Generation from Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Ciaran Carson; Chapter 15 A Pen Mislaid: Some Varieties of Women’s Poetry, Medbh McGuckian, Anne Stevenson, Carol Rumens, Denise Riley; Chapter 16 Grammars of Civilization?; Chapter 17 Hiding in Fictions: Some New Narrative Poems, James Fenton, Andrew Motion, Peter Reading, Blake Morrison;
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