Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to MahonISBN: 978-0-631-21509-7
Hardcover
312 pages
January 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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“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)
"Michael O'Neill has assembled some truly memorable contributions to the criticism of twentieth-century poetry, all of them illuminating, some of them hard to come by in recent years, acquiring here the freshness of a renewed encounter after long absence. Some belong to the same period as the poems and shed light on a shared context."
—Edward Larrissy, Queen's University Belfast
"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/ 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 selected passages from the best recent
critics and interwoven them with their own informed and
illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern
poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary
traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion
to one of the great ages of poetry in English."
—Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford