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

Redaktion: Alderman, Nigel; Blanton, C. D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310290
• Artikelnr.: 38306299

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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)