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A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. * An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century * Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion * Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions * Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States * Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events

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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118836019
• Artikelnr.: 40152685

Rezensionen

"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)