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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 January 2008
      13 December 2007
      ISBN:
      9781139001779
      9780521870818
      9780521691321
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052187081X
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.576kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.456kg, 286 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    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.

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