{"product_id":"a-concise-companion-to-postwar-british-and-irish-poetry-paperback-softback-9781118646946","title":"A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118646946","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGives some sense of why poetry provides the sharpest of lenses through which to view the historical and social developments of the second half of the twentieth century, and will serve both as a useful source of reference and a provocative starting point for discussion.\" (\u003ci\u003eEnglish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2011)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Engaging and uncluttered by jargon. The mix of formal and thematic issues with social and cultural contexts doubles the usefulness of this collection as a preparatory tool for students of the period.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNigel Alderman (Edited by), N Alderman (Author), C. D. Blanton (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118646946, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free of socio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measured historical overview and a critical introduction, and one can see that the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what are described as intricate negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies and positions.”  (\u003ci\u003eSuite101.com\u003c\/i\u003e, 17 February 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars 11\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent Sherry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Burt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Alderman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscusses 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Thurston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurveys 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn P. Waters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Poetry and Decolonization 111\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJahan Ramazani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddresses 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Transatlantic Currents 134\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. D. Blanton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsiders 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrew Milne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurveys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda A. Kinnahan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric Falci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscusses 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Poetry and Religion 221\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomana Huk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraces 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Middleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderscores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 285\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52417795162392,"sku":"9781118646946","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118646946.jpg?v=1784509643","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-concise-companion-to-postwar-british-and-irish-poetry-paperback-softback-9781118646946","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}