• ISBN13: 9780631215295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Blackwell
• Publication Date: November 11, 2001
• Pages: 626
• Original Price: INR 1395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 4
• Item Weight: 1270 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English–language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English–language poetry in the twentieth–century. Incorporates new readings of key selected texts. Embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English–speaking countries. Fully integrates women poets, feminist approaches and post–colonial poets.

Neil Roberts is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and also Chuo University in Japan. His publications on a wide range of contemporary poets, as well as on George Meredith and D.H Lawrence and Bakhtin, include Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (1999).