Preface Acknowledgements 1. Poetry Today: The Place of the Anthology 2. Robert Graves and David Jones 3. John Betjeman and William Plomer 4. W.H. Auden
Louis MacNeice
C. Day Lewis
Stephen Spender 5. George Barker
David Gascoyne
W.S. Graham
Lawrence Durrell
Norman Nicholson 6. Stevie Smith
Geoffrey Grigson
Roy Fuller
R.S. Thomas
Gavin Ewart
Charles Causley 7. 'The Movement' and After 8. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath 9. Geoffrey Hill 10. 'The Group' and After 11. Scotland and Wales 12. Ireland: North and South 13. 'Pop' and After 14. Tony Harrison
Douglas Dunn
James Fenton
Wendy Cope 15. Vernon Scannell
U.A. Fanthorpe
P. J. Kavenagh
Alaistair Elliot
Andrew Motion
Blake Morrison
Sean O'Brien
Peter Reading 16. John Fuller
Hugo Williams
Craig Raine
Christopher Reid
Kit Wright
John Whitworth
Peter Scupham
John Mole
George Szirtes 17. Some Women 18.'The New Generation' 19 'The Poetry Business' Select Bibliography Index