{"product_id":"twentieth-century-british-and-irish-poetry-isbn-9780631215103","title":"Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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, \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy 11\u003cbr\u003e Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Howarth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Thomas 30\u003cbr\u003e Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Motion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilfred Owen 37\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJahan Ramazani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eW. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. B. Yeats 57\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT. S. Eliot 71\u003cbr\u003e Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCalvin Bedient\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD. H. Lawrence 83\u003cbr\u003e Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ 87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Paulin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eW. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. H. Auden 94\u003cbr\u003e Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ 98\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael O’Neill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis MacNeice 108\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Louis MacNeice 112\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Spender 120\u003cbr\u003e Extracts from The Ironic Harvest 123\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Thurley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeith Douglas and Dylan Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeith Douglas 130\u003cbr\u003e Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ 133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDylan Thomas 141\u003cbr\u003e Extract from The Romantic Survival 144\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Bayley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 149\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Larkin and the Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilip Larkin 149\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Out of Reach 154\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Swarbrick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Movement 162\u003cbr\u003e Extract from The Movement 166\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlake Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth 178\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTed Hughes 179\u003cbr\u003e Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ 182\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Dickie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath 187\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristina Britzolakis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Hill 200\u003cbr\u003e Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ 203\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices 214\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBasil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting 214\u003cbr\u003e Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eM. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStevie Smith 230\u003cbr\u003e Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry 232\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane Dowson and Alice Entwistle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTony Harrison 234\u003cbr\u003e Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison 237\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuke Spencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition 245\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney and Derek Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney 245\u003cbr\u003e Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 250\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Corcoran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDerek Mahon 259\u003cbr\u003e Extract from Poetry in the Wars 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdna Longley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 290\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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.”  (\u003ci\u003eCercles\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL O’NEILL\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of English Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel, was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMADELEINE CALLAGHAN\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Sheffild University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Byron, Shelley and Yeats for publication.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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, \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.   \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eEdward Larrissy\u003c\/b\u003e, Queen's University Belfast  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJohn Kerrigan\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eSeamus Perry\u003c\/b\u003e, Balliol College, Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990419587301,"sku":"NP9780631215103","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631215103.jpg?v=1761787753","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/twentieth-century-british-and-irish-poetry-isbn-9780631215103","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}