The 20th Century in Poetry

Michael Hulse & Simon Rae (eds)

ISBN 10: 1605984558 / ISBN 13: 9781605984551

Published by Pegasus Books, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The 20th Century in Poetry
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605984558
• ISBN 13: 9781605984551
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This impressive anthology presents over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. Covering every major period of our cultural history supporting their stance that no poet works in isolation from contemporary events the editors have placed each poem within its historical context as well as the century s overall poetic development.By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see these poets in a new light. Here A. E. Housman rubs shoulders with T. S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy.Including poems by Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, G. K. Chesterton, Ezra Pound, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O Hara, Ted Hughes,Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, and a host of others, this richly rewarding collection captures the history of the twentieth century within one monumental volume.

About the Author

Michael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in England, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India. He is based in Warwick, England.