Full Description
Neil Corcoran's book is a major survey and interpretation of modern British poetry since 1940, offering a wealth of insights into poets and their work and placing them in a broader context of poetic dialogue and cultural exchange. The book is organised into five main parts, beginning with a consideration of the late Modernism of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden and ranging, decade by decade, from the poetry of the Second World War and the `New Romanticism' of Dylan Thomas to the Movement, the poetry of Northern Ireland, the variety of contemporary women's poetry and the diversity of the contemporary scene. The book will be especially useful for students as it includes detailed and lively readings of works by such poets as Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin.
Contents
Part 1 (Dis)continuities and (Dis)placements After Modernism; Introduction; Chapter 1 Eliot or Auden; Chapter 2 Varieties of Parable, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Muir; Chapter 3 A Modernism in Place, David Jones, Basil Bunting; Part 2 From the Forties; Chapter 4 A New Romanticism, Dylan Apocalypse, Thomas, W.S. Graham, George Barker; Chapter 5 The Poetry of a Second War, Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis; Chapter 6 Two Solitudes, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas; Part 3 From the Fifties; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 7 A Movement Pursued, Philip Larkin; Chapter 8 Movements, Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Thorn Gunn; Chapter 9 Negotiations, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill; Part 4 From the Sixties; intro3 Introduction; Chapter 10 Some English Attitudes, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Hugo Williams, Ian Hamilton, David Harsent; Chapter 11 Barbarians and Rhubarbarians, Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison; Chapter 12 Varieties of Neo-Modernism, Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J.H. Prynne; Chapter 13 The Poetry of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon; Part 5 Since 1970; intro5 Introduction: Towards the Postmodern?; Chapter 14 In Ireland or Someplace: A Second Generation from Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Ciaran Carson; Chapter 15 A Pen Mislaid: Some Varieties of Women's Poetry, Medbh McGuckian, Anne Stevenson, Carol Rumens, Denise Riley; Chapter 16 Grammars of Civilization?; Chapter 17 Hiding in Fictions: Some New Narrative Poems, James Fenton, Andrew Motion, Peter Reading, Blake Morrison;
