English Poetry Since 1940

Journal Data

Type	SOURCE_BOOK
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-13	9781315846934
Open Library	OL17965153W
Total publications	1
Coverage period	2014 - 2014
Language	EN
Cited by	1
h-index	1

Part 1 Discontinuities and displacements after modenism: Eliot or Auden varieties of parable - Louis MacNeice and Edwin Muir a modernism in place - David Jones and Basil Bunting. Part 2 From the forties: a new romanticism - apocalypse, Dylan Thomas, W.S.Graham, George Barker the poetry of a second war, Keith Douglas, Alum Lewis and others two lonelinesses, Steve Smith and R.S.Thomas. Part 3 From the fifties: introduction a movement pursued, Philip Larkin movements, Donald Davie, Charles Timlinson, Thom Gunn negotiations, Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill. Part 4 From the sixties: introduction some English attitudes - the group and the review, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Hugo Williams, Ian Hamilton and David Harsent barbarians and rhubarbarians, Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison varieties of neo-modernism, Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J.H.Prynne the poetry of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon. Part 5 Since 1970: towards the postmodern in Ireland of someplace - a second generation from Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Ciaran Carson a pen mislaid - some varieties of poetry by women, Medbh McGuckian, Anne Stevenson, Carol Rumens and Denise Riley grammars of civilization?, the 'martian' poetry of Craig Raine and Christopher Reid hiding in fictions - some new narrative poems what they do not say: James Fenton's Nest of Vampires writing into the dark, Andrew Motion, independence junk Britain Peter Reading's ukulele Music, cleaning up streets - Blake Morrison's The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper