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Michael O'Neil - Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon - 9780631215103 - V9780631215103
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Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon

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Description for Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon Paperback. Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Callaghan, Madeleine. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

‘This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O’Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, Twentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge

‘Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here ... Read more

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetry.

Through an insightful narrative – which points up the major features of the poets and the chosen excerpts – Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, including essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics such as Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Featured poets include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Lawrence, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, Plath, Heaney, Mahon and many others.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Guides to Criticism
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631215103
SKU
V9780631215103
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50

About Michael O'Neil
MICHAEL O’NEILL is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010). He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel, was ... Read more

Reviews for Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon
“The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals.”  (Cercles, 2012)    

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