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The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. 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-- Introduction / Edward Larrissy -- 1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? / C.D. Blanton -- 2. The movement poetry and the reading public / Patrick Deane -- 3. Survivors from before the War: late modernists and poets of the 1930s / John Matthias -- 4. Beyond all this fiddle: Hughs, Hill, Tomlinson and Fisher / Eric Falci -- 5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry / Cornelia Gräbner -- 6. High late-modernists or postmodernists? vanguard and l

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Author
Edward Larrissy
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9782015025681
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

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