The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

Edward Larrissy (Edited by)

9781107090668, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 December 2015

310 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg

'This volume meets the high standards we expect from the Cambridge Companion series. Each contributor is an academic with expertise in the area on which they write. Each chapter is engagingly and accessibly written, providing a necessarily selective overview of the subject.' Languages and Literature

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? C. D. Blanton
2. The movement Patrick Deane
3. Survivors: modernists and thirties poets John Matthias
4. Beyond all this fiddle Eric Falci
5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the children of Albion, and performance poetry Cornelia Grabner
6. High late modernists or postmodernists? Simon Perril
7. Stretching the lyric: the metaphor men, new narrative poetry, and other ruses Natalie Pollard
8. Poetry and class Sandie Byrne
9. Northern Irish poetry Fran Brearton
10. Scottish poetry Alan Riach
11. Welsh poetry Katie Gramich
12. Black British poetry Sarah Lawson Welsh
13. Poetry, feminism, gender and women's experience Jan Montefiore
14. Ecopoetics Fiona Becket
15. Poetry and the city Peter Barry
16. Outward forms Jon Glover.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary theory [DSA], Literature: history & criticism [DS]