Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010
  • Cited by 5
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781139342414
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342414
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Information

Book description

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the poetry and provides in-depth readings of many of the period's central poets. British poetry after 1945 has been given much less attention than both earlier British and American poetry, as well as postwar American poetry. There are very few single-author studies that present the entirety of the period's poetry. This book is unique for the comprehensive richness with which it presents the historical and literary-historical scene, as well as for its close-up focus on a wide range of major poets and poems.

Reviews

'… a key strength of this account is in registering the connection between innovation and retrospection which is so important to many British poets. … a worthwhile addition … many of his analyses of both mainstream and experimental poems will serve as masterclasses for undergraduate students, as well as spurring academics to revisit and reread.'

Samuel Rogers Source: The Cambridge Quarterly

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents
References
Further Reading
Alderman, Nigel, and Blanton, C.D., editors. “Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.” Yale Journal of Criticism, 13.1 (2000), 1–151.
Alderman, Nigel, and Blanton, C.D., editors. A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Alderman, Nigel, and Thurston, Michael. Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Barry, Peter. Contemporary British Poetry and the City. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Barry, PeterPoetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2006.
Booth, Martin. British Poetry 1964–1984: Driving through the Barricades. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Broom, Sarah. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Bush, Clive. Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets. London: Talus, 1997.
Conran, Anthony. Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997.
Corcoran, Neil. English Poetry since 1940. London: Longman, 1993.
Corcoran, Neil, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Davie, Donald. Thomas Hardy and British Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Davie, DonaldUnder Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960–1988. Manchester: Carcanet, 1989.
Day, Gary, and Docherty, Brian, editors. British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Dowson, Jane, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Dowson, Jane, and Entwistle, Alice. A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Duncan, Andrew. Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005.
Duncan, AndrewThe Council of Heresy: A Primer of Poetry in a Balkanised Terrain. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2009.
Duncan, AndrewThe Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003.
Duncan, AndrewOrigins of the Underground: British Poetry Between Apocryphon and Incident Light, 1933–1979. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2008.
Entwistle, Alice. Poetry, Geography, Gender: Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013.
Gregson, Ian. Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Gregson, IanThe New Poetry in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
Hampson, Robert, and Barry, Peter, editors. New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
Hart, Matthew. Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Homberger, Eric. The Art of the Real: Poetry in England and America Since 1939. London: Dent and Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
Hooker, Jeremy. Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
Huk, Romana, and Acheson, James, editors. Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Ingelbien, Raphaël. Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood since the Second World War. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002.
Johnston, Dillon. The Poetic Economies of England and Ireland, 1912–2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Kennedy, David. New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry, 1980–1994. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 1996.
Kennedy, David, and Kennedy, Christine. Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010: Body, Time and Locale. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Kinnahan, Linda. Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
Leader, Zachary, editor. The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Longley, Edna. The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994.
Longley, EdnaPoetry in the Wars. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1986.
Ludwig, Hans-Werner, and Fietz, Lothar, editors. Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspectives. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995.
Mackay, Peter, Longley, Edna, and Brearton, Fran, editors. Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
McDonald, Peter. Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
McGuire, Matt, and Nicholson, Colin, editors. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Merriman, Emily Taylor, and Grafe, Adrian, editors. Intimate Exposure: Essays on the Public–Private Divide in British Poetry since 1950. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
Middleton, Peter. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.
Miller, David, and Price, Richard. British Poetry Magazines, 1914–2000: A History and Bibliography of “Little Magazines.”London and Newcastle: The British Library and the Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
Morrison, Blake. The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
O'Brien, Sean. The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1998.
Patke, Rajeev S. Postcolonial Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Picot, Edward. Outcasts from Eden: Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry since 1945. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997.
Pollard, Charles W. New World Modernisms: T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Pollard, Natalie. Speaking to You: Contemporary Poetry and Public Address. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Purves, Robin, and Ladkin, Sam, editors. Complicities: British Poetry 1945–2007. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.
Ramazani, Jahan. The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Ramazani, JahanA Transnational Poetics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Redmond, John. Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2013.
Robinson, Peter. Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Robinson, Peter, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Sampson, Fiona. Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry. London: Chatto & Windus, 2012.
Sheppard, Robert. The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and Its Discontents 1950–2000. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005.
Sheppard, RobertWhen Bad Times Made for Good Poetry: Episodes in the History of the Poetics of Innovation. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011.
Sinfield, Alan. Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Smith, Stan. Poetry and Displacement. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Stevenson, Randall. The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 12. 1960–2000: The Last of England?Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Trotter, David. The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1984.
Tuma, Keith. Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998.
Wheatley, David. Contemporary British Poetry: Readers’ Guide to Essential Criticism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Whyte, Christopher. Modern Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
Wilkinson, John. The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2007.
Williams, Daniel G., editor. Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970–2005. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2010.
Wootten, William. The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.