ケンブリッジ版 イギリス現代詩入門 Cambride Introduction to Contemporary British Poetry

Wheatley, David

Cambridge Univ Pr（2018/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521016384
• DDC分類 821

Full Description

The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary British Poetry offers readers a detailed introduction to the rich variety of traditions and individual talents that make up British poetry since the Second World War. It combines an overview of post-war literary history with detailed readings of the major poets of the period, such as Philip Larkin, Basil Bunting, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Beginning with the transition from modernism and the 1930s, it charts developing concepts of Britishness and the British poem through various groups and schools, paying careful attention to the distinctiveness of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish writing and the shaping influence of social and political contexts. The primary focus throughout is on close readings of the most important poems of the period, and their dynamic and central contribution to twentieth-century poetry in English. This is a book that students and teachers alike will find invaluable.

Contents

Introduction; 1. A new dispensation?; 2. The sense of movement; 3. A gathering of solitaries; 4. The raw and the cooked: Hughes, Hill and Harrison; 5. An exploded view: northern Irish poetry; 6. England, whose England?: Britain through non-indigenous eyes; 7. The 'other' tradition: experimentalism; 8. The Caledonian anti-syzygy; 9. Towards Junk Britain; 10, Unfamiliar territory; 11. No more them and us?; Bibliography.