The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521874343

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.


The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107495407

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.


The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
Author: Mark Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107123828

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.


The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Author: Gerald Dawe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108420354

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.


The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Author: Neil Corcoran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113982810X

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.


The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Author: Thomas N. Corns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1993-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521423090

English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.


The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010
Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107090660

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.