The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry

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The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry is a definitive anthology mapping the landscape of poetry from Britain and Ireland throughout the century. Edna Longley curates key poets, including Yeats, Hardy, Graves, Eliot, W H Auden, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney, linking their works and illustrating their connections within a rich poetic tradition.
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Ideal for readers with an interest in British and Irish poetry, literary scholars, students, and those seeking a guided exploration of 20th-century verse.

This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. Edna Longley shows the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points out the connections between them. Poets include Yeats, Hardy, Graves, Eliot, W H Auden, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and others

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This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary, points out the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing poetic traditions of these islands.

Poets include Yeats, Hardy, Graves, Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and others.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781852245146

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 September 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Contributors:

Edited by Edna Longley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita in the School of English, Queen's University Belfast. Her publications include an edition of Edward Thomas's prose writings, A Language Not To Be Betrayed (1981) from Carcanet, and four critical books: Louis MacNeice: A Study (1988) from Faber, and Poetry in the Wars (1986), The Living Stream: Literature & Revisionism in Ireland (1994) and Poetry & Posterity (2000) from Bloodaxe. She also edited The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry (2000) and Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).