Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon

Introduction

1. Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma
Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen

2. Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart
W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

3. Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires
W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender

4. Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric
Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas

5. Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night

6. Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill

7. Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison

8. Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition
Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon

Afterword

Recommended Reading

Index