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Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Hardy to Mahon
"Michael O'Neill has assembled some truly memorable contributions to the criticism of twentieth-century poetry, all of them illuminating, some of them hard to come by in recent years, acquiring here the freshness of a renewed encounter after long absence. Some belong to the same period as the poems and shed light on a shared context." "This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O'Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition, and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, /Twentieth-Century British Poetry/ is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance." "Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here selected passages from the best recent critics and interwoven them with their own informed and illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion to one of the great ages of poetry in English."
—Edward Larrissy, Queen's University Belfast
—John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge
—Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford
Michael O'Neill (Edited by), M O′Neill (Author), Madeleine Callaghan (Edited by)
9780631215103, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 7 January 2011
320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg
“The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals.” (Cercles, 2012)
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry ‘This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O’Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, Twentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge ‘Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here selected passages from the best recent critics and interwoven them with their own informed and illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion to one of the great ages of poetry in English.’ Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetry. Through an insightful narrative – which points up the major features of the poets and the chosen excerpts – Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, including essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics such as Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Featured poets include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Lawrence, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, Plath, Heaney, Mahon and many others.
Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford
Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11 Thomas Hardy 11 Edward Thomas 30 Wilfred Owen 37 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57 W. B. Yeats 57 T. S. Eliot 71 D. H. Lawrence 83 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94 W. H. Auden 94 Louis MacNeice 108 Stephen Spender 120 4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric 129 Keith Douglas 130 Dylan Thomas 141 5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 149 Philip Larkin 149 The Movement 162 6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth 178 Ted Hughes 179 Sylvia Plath 187 Geoffrey Hill 200 7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices 214 Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting 214 Stevie Smith 230 Tony Harrison 234 8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition 245 Seamus Heaney 245 Derek Mahon 259 Afterword 267 Recommended Reading 272 Index 290
Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen
Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17
Peter Howarth
Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33
Andrew Motion
Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41
Jahan Ramazani
W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63
Helen Vendler
Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77
Calvin Bedient
Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ 87
Tom Paulin
W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender
Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ 98
Michael O’Neill
Extract from Louis MacNeice 112
Peter McDonald
Extracts from The Ironic Harvest 123
Geoffrey Thurley
Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas
Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ 133
Geoffrey Hill
Extract from The Romantic Survival 144
John Bayley
Philip Larkin and the Movement
Extract from Out of Reach 154
Andrew Swarbrick
Extract from The Movement 166
Blake Morrison
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill
Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ 182
Margaret Dickie
Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning 191
Christina Britzolakis
Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ 203
Alan Robinson
Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison
Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence 218
M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall
Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry 232
Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle
Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison 237
Luke Spencer
Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon
Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 250
Neil Corcoran
Extract from Poetry in the Wars 263
Edna Longley
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