Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521197856
This Companion is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets. It provides new approaches to a wide range of influential women's poetry, a chronology and guide to further reading.
Author : Jane Dowson
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139824856
This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.
Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521819466
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Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521012454
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion, the only book of its kind on the market, provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982810X
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108636217
A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry today. Essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries respond to the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American discourse. Other essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer poetics. The environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preoccupations, alongside a range of styles from spoken word to the avant-garde, and an examination of poetry's place in the creative writing era.
Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139502468
For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521008730
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Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107090660
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. 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.
