The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry

Author: Jane Dowson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1139824856

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This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.


The Twentieth Century in Poetry

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

Author: Peter Childs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134696604

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Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: * the Georgians * First World War poetry * Eliot * Yeats * the thirties * post-war poetry * contemporary anthologies * women's poetry * Northern Irish and black British poets It builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.


British Women Poets of the Romantic Era

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era

Author: Paula R. Feldman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2001-01-19

Total Pages: 924

ISBN-13: 9780801866401

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This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.


Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939

Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939

Author: Jane Dowson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 135187151X

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Primarily a literary history, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939 provides a timely discussion of individual women poets who have become, or are becoming, well-known as their works are reprinted but about whom little has yet been written. This volume recognizes the contributions, overlooked previously, of such British poets as Anna Wickham, Nancy Cunard, Edith Sitwell, Mina Loy, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, Vita Sackville-West and Sylvia Townsend Warner; and the impact of such American poets as H.D., Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore and Laura Riding on literary practice in Britain. This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity of modernist developments which include avant-garde experiments, quiet, but subtly challenging, formalism and assertive 'new woman' voices. It not only chronicles women's poetry but also their publications and involvement in running presses, bookshops and writing criticism. Although historically situated, it is written from the perspective of contemporary debates concerning the interface of gender and modernism. The author argues that a cohering aesthetic of the poetry is a denial of femininity through various evasions of gendered identity such as masking, male and female impersonations and the rupturing of realist modes.


The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

Author: Rita Dove

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0143106430

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An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.


Contemporary British Poetry

Contemporary British Poetry

Author: James Acheson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1996-09-12

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0791494217

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Devoted to close readings of poets and their contexts from various postmodern perspectives, this book offers a wide-ranging look at the work of feminists and "post feminist" poets, working class poets, and poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, as well as provocative re-readings of such well-established and influential figures as Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Craig Raine. Contributors include many respected theorists and critics, such as Antony Easthope, C.L. Innes, John Matthias, Edward Larrissy, Linda Anderson, Eric Homberger, Alastair Niven, R.K. Meiners, and Cairns Craig, in addition to new writers working from new theoretical perspectives. Their approaches range from cultural theory to poststructuralism; each essayist addresses a general audience while engaging in debates of interest to postgraduates and specialists in the fields of twentieth-century poetry and cultural studies. The book's strength lies in its diversity at every level.


A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

Author: Aliki Barnstone

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1992-04-28

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 0805209972

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A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.


The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

Author: M. Joannou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1137292172

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Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.