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The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry
Edna Longley (Ed.)
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Description for The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry
Paperback. Editor(s): Longley, Edna. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies – with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic’s argument or to illustrate a journalistic overview. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points up the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing poetic traditions of these islands. Edna Longley draws the poetic line of the century not through culture-defining groups but through the work of the ... Read more
This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies – with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic’s argument or to illustrate a journalistic overview. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points up the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing poetic traditions of these islands. Edna Longley draws the poetic line of the century not through culture-defining groups but through the work of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852245146
SKU
V9781852245146
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About Edna Longley (Ed.)
Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Her publications include an edition of Edward Thomas’s prose writings, A Language Not To Be Betrayed (1981) from Carcanet, and four critical books: Louis MacNeice: A Study (1988) from Faber, and Poetry in the Wars (1986), The Living Stream: Literature & Revisionism in Ireland (1994) and ... Read more
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