The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the best poets and poetry since 1900 - Hardcover

Schmidt, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857382462 ISBN 13: 9780857382467

Publisher: Quercus Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Great Modern Poets and CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. This ideal gift is now complete with an 80-minute audio CD featuring original recordings of 29 inspiring poems, read by their authors. Here the listener will find beautiful verse by the greatest poets of the modern era, including: W.B Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Wallace Stevens' Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself; T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; John Betjeman's A Shropshire Lad and The Licorice Fields at Pontefract; W.H. Auden's The Shield of Achilles; Dylan Thomas' A Refusal to Mourn...; Ted Hughes' Thrushes; Sylvia Plath's Daddy; and a special full-length reading of Howl by Allen Ginsburg, among many other much-loved classics. Accompanying the CD is a beautifully illustrated book containing over 150 complete and unabridged poems, covering Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, The War Poets, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Proud, Sylvia Plath, and many more. Each chapter comprises introductory quotations, an illustration, a biography of the poet, a selection of their key poems and simple explanations of the themes. With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems, and a glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, The Great Modern Poets and CD is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry has to offer.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Schmidt is Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University. He also runs the important poetry publisher, Carcanet Press, and is the author of The Story of Poetry and The First Poets.

From the Back Cover

Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many other major poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For each, Michael Schmidt has provided an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a greater understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.

From the Inside Flap

INCLUDES AN 80-MINUTE AUDIO CD FEATURING ORIGINAL RECORDINGS OF MAJOR POETS READING THEIR WORK.
Here is the prefect introduction to the best poems written since the start of the 20th century, their authors and their themes. Over 150 essential poems are accompanied by a brief discussion by poetry authority Michael Schmidt that provides insight, observations and the historical context for each poet and their work.
50 English-language poets are explored, including Robert Frost, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Rudyard Kipling, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Allen Tate, Laura Riding, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbury, Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath.
With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems, and a glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, the Great Modern Poets is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry has to offer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857382462
• ISBN 13: 9780857382467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Schmidt Michael