The 20th Century in Poetry

The 20th Century in Poetry
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 884
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ISBN-10 : 9781448117956
ISBN-13 : 144811795X
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Synopsis The 20th Century in Poetry by : Michael Hulse

This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A.E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T.S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. Here are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in Holloway Prison in 1912 or the medical offer who went into Belsen with the British troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting power. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. This richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the world.

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

The Twentieth Century in Poetry
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781134696604
ISBN-13 : 1134696604
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Twentieth Century in Poetry by : Peter Childs

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.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780470779798
ISBN-13 : 0470779799
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher MacGowan

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich. Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North & South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’. The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.

The Music of Time

The Music of Time
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 9780691218861
ISBN-13 : 0691218862
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Music of Time by : John Burnside

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Scanning the Century

Scanning the Century
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 650
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106015058594
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Synopsis Scanning the Century by : Peter Forbes

1900-1914 - 1914-1918 - The Russian revolution 1917-1921 - The Jazz age: 1921-1929 - The thirties - Fascism v. Communism 1933-1939 - World War LL 1939-1945 - The Holocaust 1933-1945 - The atomic bomb - The fifties - Communism 1945-1989 - Decolonization 1947- - Rural life - The cold war: 1945-1989 - The sixties - Civil rights 1930s -1968 - Vietnam 1964-1973 - The Middle East 1948- - Politics - The seventies - Ireland - The environment - Travel - Work - Home - Love & sex - Children and family - The individual - Oppression and exile - Crime, vice and low life - The eighties and nineties - The media - The arts - Sport and leisure - Science and technology - The collapse of communism and its consequences 1989- - Existence - Sci-fi and space - 2000-; Newsreel (C. Day Lewis).

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9780374533182
ISBN-13 : 0374533180
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by : Ilan Stavans

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0521891493
ISBN-13 : 9780521891493
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Christopher Beach

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry
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Publisher : Penguin Group
Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : 9780143106432
ISBN-13 : 0143106430
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by : Rita Dove

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.

Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry

Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781783740901
ISBN-13 : 1783740906
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry by : Katharine Hodgson

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation’s culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin’s second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel′shtam, their works and their lives. In the last twenty years many critics have discussed the possibility of various coexisting canons rooted in official and non-official literature and suggested replacing the term "Soviet literature" with a new definition – "Russian literature of the Soviet period". Contributions to this volume explore the multiple factors involved in reshaping the canon, understood as a body of literary texts given exemplary or representative status as "classics". Among factors which may influence the composition of the canon are educational institutions, competing views of scholars and critics, including figures outside Russia, and the self-canonising activity of poets themselves. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic yearnings in some quarters for a single canon, the current situation is defiantly diverse, balancing both the Soviet literary tradition and the parallel contemporaneous literary worlds of the emigration and the underground. Required reading for students, teachers and lovers of Russian literature, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry brings our understanding of post-Soviet Russia up to date.

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse
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Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Total Pages : 700
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ISBN-10 : 0198121377
ISBN-13 : 9780198121374
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse by : Philip Larkin

Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.