The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry

This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.

Author: Jane Dowson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.01w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780521120210

About the Author
Dowson, Jane: - Jane Dowson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University.