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A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Neil Roberts
100,10 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780470998663
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	648

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Titelbeschreibung

In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Neil Roberts PART I Topics and Debates 1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection 7 Hugh Witemeyer 2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors 21 Peter Brooker and Simon Perril 3 The Non-modernist Modern 37 David Goldie 4 Poetry and Politics 51 Reed Way Dasenbrock 5 Poetry and War 64 Matthew Campbell 6 Poetry and Science 76 Tim Armstrong 7 Poetry and Literary Theory 89 Joanne Feit Diehl 8 Poetry and Gender 101 Edward Larrissy 9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century 113 Philip Hobsbaum PART II Poetic Movements 10 Imagism 127 Jacob Korg 11 The New Negro Renaissance 138 William W. Cook 12 Poetry and the New Criticism 153 Stephen Burt and Jennifer Lewin 13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse 168 John Osborne 14 The Beats 183 John Osborne 15 Confessionalism 197 Lucy Collins 16 The Movement 209 Stephen Regan 17 Language Poetry 220 Simon Perril PART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English 18 West Indian Poetry 235 Victor Chang 19 African Poetry 249 Kwadwo Osei-Nyame 20 Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent 264 Vinay Dharwadker 21 Australian Poetry 281 Livio Dobrez 22 New Zealand Poetry 293 Terry Sturm 23 Canadian Poetry 304 Cynthia Messenger 24 Scottish Poetry 318 Jeffrey Skoblow 25 Welsh Poetry 329 Douglas Houston 26 Irish Poetry to 1966 343 Alex Davis PART IV Readings 27 Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912–13 359 Tim Armstrong 28 Robert Frost: North of Boston 369 Alex Calder 29 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 381 John Haffenden 30 D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers 392 David Ellis 31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and All 403 Lisa M. Steinman 32 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 414 Philip Hobsbaum 33 Marianne Moore: Observations 427 Elizabeth Wilson 34 W. B. Yeats: The Tower 437 Terence Brown 35 W. H. Auden: Poems 448 Peter McDonald 36 Elizabeth Bishop: North & South 457 Jonathan Ellis 37 Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos 469 A. David Moody 38 Robert Lowell: Life Studies 481 Stephen Matterson 39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch 491 Peter McDonald 40 Sylvia Plath: Ariel 500 Sue Vice 41 Ted Hughes: Crow 513 Rand Brandes 42 Seamus Heaney: North 524 Bernard O’Donoghue 43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 536 David Herd 44 Derek Walcott: Omeros 547 Bruce Woodcock PART V The Contemporary Scene 45 Contemporary American Poetry 559 Roger Gilbert 46 Contemporary British Poetry 571 Sean O’Brien 47 Contemporary Irish Poetry 585 Lucy Collins 48 Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry 596 Jahan Ramazani Index 610

Rezension

"Roberts has brought together an extraordinary collection of 48 engagingly written and informative essays. This reviewer is aware of no other volume covering the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth century. Recommended for all collections, this title will be a welcome reference and guide for undergraduate students and useful for specialists." --Choice

Autorenportrait

Neil Roberts is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and also Chuo University in Japan. His publications on a wide range of contemporary poets, as well as on George Meredith and D.H Lawrence and Bakhtin, include Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (1999).