The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English (Oxford Companions)

^ Read * The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English (Oxford Companions) by Clarendon Press ç eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English (Oxford Companions) A Reference Book You Need Not Own. Paul Little The description of this book does not clearly depict what it entails. There is no poetry in this book. It is not an anthology (though, at the outset of this one, the publisher -- the great house of Oxford -- does provide a very impressive list of their published anthologies, poetic works, and studies of specific poets, poetic eras, nationalities, etc.). There appear to be no in-depth comparisons of one work or writer with others, although you can ge

Author	:	Clarendon Press
Rating	:	4.83 (952 Votes)
Asin	:	0198661479
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	624 Pages
Publish Date	:	2013-04-12
Language	:	English

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A Reference Book You Need Not Own. Paul Little The description of this book does not clearly depict what it entails. There is no poetry in this book. It is not an anthology (though, at the outset of this one, the publisher -- the great house of Oxford -- does provide a very impressive list of their published anthologies, poetic works, and studies of specific poets, poetic eras, nationalities, etc.). There appear to be no in-depth comparisons of one work or writer with others, although you can get a sense of how poets may have associated with each other; e.g., how Ezra Pound was tied to and influential on people of his

From School Library Journal YA?A standard reference work that will be useful for YAs who are interested in a brief biographical background and a broad-brush critical approach. . Despite its title, this volume only covers English-language poets, but is extremely inclusive within those limits.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc

Chinua Achebee, Jack Mapanje, Femi Oyebode and other important African poets writing in English are here, as well as poets from the Caribbean, India, and even Russia. The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad and Zimbabwe--anywhere where poets write in English. Here are in-depth discussions of Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Joyce alongside provocative assessments of W.H. Pritchard on Robert Frost and Randall Jarrell. For example, Seamus Heaney writes on Robert Lowell ("Lowell had invented a way of getting at life, of making poetry kick and freak at the edge of contemporary reality"), Ann Stev