This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.
This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nigel Alderman is assistant professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He previously taught at Yale University where he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College. He has published on both Romantic and Modern poetry and is completing a book on British literature of the sixties. C. D. Blanton is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches modern poetry. He has previously taught at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study of late modernist British poetry entitled Aftereffects, and together with Nigel Alderman he has edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.
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Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xv Introduction 1 Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton 1 Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars 11 Vincent Sherry How the experience of continuous war and the collapse of liberalism shape modernist poetry and the twentieth century as a whole focusing on Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden and David Jones. 2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32 Stephen Burt How the poetry of the Movement established a dominant and continuing mode in postwar British poetry with discussions of Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines Kingsley Amis Donald Davie Thom Gunn Elizabeth Jennings Philip Larkin Simon Armitage Lavinia Greenlaw Alison Brackenbury and Peter Scupham. 3 Myth History and The New Poetry 51 Nigel Alderman Discusses the reaction of the 1960s and later decades to modernist myth-making and Movement antimodernism exploring the problem of formulating a historical poetics with attention to Philip Larkin A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry Sylvia Plath Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. 4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72 Michael Thurston Surveys the poetry of peripheral nationalisms and regionalisms concentrating on the oscillation between commitment and irony in Northern Ireland (John Montague Ciaran Carson Seamus Heaney Paul Muldoon) Wales (R. S. Thomas Tony Conran Robert Minhinnick Oliver Reynolds Gillian Clarke) Scotland (W. S. Graham George Mackay Brown Iain Crichton Smith Douglas Dunn Raymond Vettese Tom Leonard Kathleen Jamie) northern England and the Midlands (Tony Harrison Ted Hughes Jon Silkin Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher). 5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92 John P. Waters Charts three generations of poets in Northern Ireland attending to the ways in which problems of identity have generated formal innovation focusing upon Louis MacNeice John Hewitt and Patrick Kavanagh; Seamus Heaney John Montague Derek Mahon and Michael Longley; Paul Muldoon Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. 6 Poetry and Decolonization 111 Jahan Ramazani Addresses the emergent poetic forms produced by newly independent postcolonial nations and the reaction of poets in the newly post-imperial British state including discussions of Derek Walcott Kamau Brathwaite Lorna Goodison Linton Kwesi Johnson Grace Nichols Bernadine Evaristo Louise Bennett Okot p'Bitek Philip Larkin Noel Coward Tony Harrison Christopher Okigbo and Agha Shahid Ali. 7 Transatlantic Currents 134 C. D. Blanton Considers the resistance to and reception of American influence focusing on the problem of cultural translation from the modernists and the Auden generation to the Movement the British poetry revival and the contemporary avant-garde. 8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155 Drew Milne Surveys the complex array of avant-garde formations after modernism tracing the multiple experimental tendencies of neo-modernist writing with particular attention to the sites groupings anthologies and critical languages of recent innovative poetries. 9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176 Linda A. Kinnahan Explores the reinflection of lyric conventions and subjectivities by recent women poets including Gillian Clarke Jean "Binta" Breeze Grace Nichols Carol Ann Duffy and Denise Riley. 10 Place Space and Landscape 200 Eric Falci Discusses the postwar recuperation of a poetics of place with examples drawn from Grace Nichols Seamus Heaney John Montague Thomas Kinsella Roy Fisher Ciaran Carson and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 11 Poetry and Religion 221 Romana Huk Traces the lingering importance of religious language and thought in an apparently secular era considering T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden J. F. Hendry Kathleen Raine David Jones Hugh MacDiarmid Donald Davie C. H. Sisson Geoffrey Hill Jon Silkin Wole Soyinka David Marriott Brian Coffey John Riley Pauline Stainer and Wendy Mulford. 12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243 Peter Middleton Underscores the importance of the material contexts of poetic production to an understanding of the significance of a poem with close attention to poems by Andrew Motion J. H. Prynne and Lavinia Greenlaw. References 264 Index 285
Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xv Introduction 1 Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton 1 Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars 11 Vincent Sherry How the experience of continuous war and the collapse of liberalism shape modernist poetry and the twentieth century as a whole focusing on Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden and David Jones. 2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32 Stephen Burt How the poetry of the Movement established a dominant and continuing mode in postwar British poetry with discussions of Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines Kingsley Amis Donald Davie Thom Gunn Elizabeth Jennings Philip Larkin Simon Armitage Lavinia Greenlaw Alison Brackenbury and Peter Scupham. 3 Myth History and The New Poetry 51 Nigel Alderman Discusses the reaction of the 1960s and later decades to modernist myth-making and Movement antimodernism exploring the problem of formulating a historical poetics with attention to Philip Larkin A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry Sylvia Plath Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. 4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72 Michael Thurston Surveys the poetry of peripheral nationalisms and regionalisms concentrating on the oscillation between commitment and irony in Northern Ireland (John Montague Ciaran Carson Seamus Heaney Paul Muldoon) Wales (R. S. Thomas Tony Conran Robert Minhinnick Oliver Reynolds Gillian Clarke) Scotland (W. S. Graham George Mackay Brown Iain Crichton Smith Douglas Dunn Raymond Vettese Tom Leonard Kathleen Jamie) northern England and the Midlands (Tony Harrison Ted Hughes Jon Silkin Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher). 5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92 John P. Waters Charts three generations of poets in Northern Ireland attending to the ways in which problems of identity have generated formal innovation focusing upon Louis MacNeice John Hewitt and Patrick Kavanagh; Seamus Heaney John Montague Derek Mahon and Michael Longley; Paul Muldoon Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. 6 Poetry and Decolonization 111 Jahan Ramazani Addresses the emergent poetic forms produced by newly independent postcolonial nations and the reaction of poets in the newly post-imperial British state including discussions of Derek Walcott Kamau Brathwaite Lorna Goodison Linton Kwesi Johnson Grace Nichols Bernadine Evaristo Louise Bennett Okot p'Bitek Philip Larkin Noel Coward Tony Harrison Christopher Okigbo and Agha Shahid Ali. 7 Transatlantic Currents 134 C. D. Blanton Considers the resistance to and reception of American influence focusing on the problem of cultural translation from the modernists and the Auden generation to the Movement the British poetry revival and the contemporary avant-garde. 8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155 Drew Milne Surveys the complex array of avant-garde formations after modernism tracing the multiple experimental tendencies of neo-modernist writing with particular attention to the sites groupings anthologies and critical languages of recent innovative poetries. 9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176 Linda A. Kinnahan Explores the reinflection of lyric conventions and subjectivities by recent women poets including Gillian Clarke Jean "Binta" Breeze Grace Nichols Carol Ann Duffy and Denise Riley. 10 Place Space and Landscape 200 Eric Falci Discusses the postwar recuperation of a poetics of place with examples drawn from Grace Nichols Seamus Heaney John Montague Thomas Kinsella Roy Fisher Ciaran Carson and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 11 Poetry and Religion 221 Romana Huk Traces the lingering importance of religious language and thought in an apparently secular era considering T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden J. F. Hendry Kathleen Raine David Jones Hugh MacDiarmid Donald Davie C. H. Sisson Geoffrey Hill Jon Silkin Wole Soyinka David Marriott Brian Coffey John Riley Pauline Stainer and Wendy Mulford. 12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243 Peter Middleton Underscores the importance of the material contexts of poetic production to an understanding of the significance of a poem with close attention to poems by Andrew Motion J. H. Prynne and Lavinia Greenlaw. References 264 Index 285
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"Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free ofsocio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measuredhistorical overview and a critical introduction, and one can seethat the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what aredescribed as intricate negotiations between the British and Irishpoetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies andpositions." (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)
"Written by critics from Britain, Ireland and the USA,this new paperback, A Concise Companion to Postwar British andIrish Poetry, edited by Nigel Alderman and C D Blanton (WileyBlackwell, £29.99 / EUR36, January 2014), opens up manyareas for literary exploration as it introduces students to themost important figures, movements and trends in British and Irishpoetry since 1945." (Allvoices, 17 February2014)
Gives some sense of why poetry provides the sharpest of lensesthrough which to view the historical and social developments of thesecond half of the twentieth century, and will serve both as auseful source of reference and a provocative starting point fordiscussion." (English Studies, 1 December 2011)
"Engaging and uncluttered by jargon. The mix of formal and thematicissues with social and cultural contexts doubles the usefulness ofthis collection as a preparatory tool for students of the period."(CHOICE, December 2009)
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