An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 1-10

3. Modernism: Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 11-32

4. An Alternative Tradition: Hardy, Housman, Frost, Kipling and Graves

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 33-59

5. Private and Public: Yeats and Lowell

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 60-79

6. Poetry of Two World Wars

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 80-97

7. Auden and Co.

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 98-115

8. ‘Black Mountain’, and the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 116-137

9. Women’s Poetry

   • R. P. Draper

   Pages 138-160

10. Regional, National and Post-Colonial (I)

    • R. P. Draper

    Pages 161-186

11. Regional, National and Post-Colonial (II)

    • R. P. Draper

    Pages 187-217

12. Experiment and Tradition: Concrete Poetry, John Ashbery and Philip Larkin

    • R. P. Draper

    Pages 218-236

13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-300

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This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments, taking fully into account the extent to which 'English' can no longer be equated solely with England. Scots, Welsh and Irish poetry, and poetry from Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, are recognised as equally important aspects of the diversity that characterises modern poetry in English; and, in particular, the contributions of North American poets such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell receive the major emphasis that their achievement and extensive influence warrants and attention is given to important new perspectives in the work of women poets such as Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop.

• England
• Modernism
• poetry
• Thomas Hardy

R.P. DRAPER is Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen.

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