• ISBN13: 9780631215097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: John Wiley
• Publication Date: January 1, 2011
• Pages: 312
• Original Price: USD 127.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 590 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Poetry and European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

From the Back Cover
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the 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 excerpt Michael O'Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, as well as essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics, including 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.

An invualuable guide to the ways in which a remarkable and evolving body of poetry has been and might be interpreted, this is a unique and wide-ranging collection of important critical reflection on significant voices in the twentieth-century British and Irish poetic tradition from Thomas Hardy to Derek Mahon. A brief Afterword outlines trends in British and Itish poetry since 1980.

Michael O'Neill 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, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (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.

Madeleine Callaghan is a lecturer in English at Sheffield 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 Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats for publication.