Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and
experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview,
Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at
all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works
published in Britain and Ireland over the last
half-century.
* Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are
widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumes
* Pays explicit attention to how to read the poems,
focusing on language and form and the institutional conditions of
literary possibility in which poets worked
* Includes poets of all types and styles from throughout the
post-war period, including canonical and mainstream poets alongside
experimental poets, women, and poets of color
Table of Content
Acknowledgments viii
1 Introduction: ‘Postwar, ‘ ‘British, ‘
‘Irish, ‘ and ‘Poetry’ 1
2 A Brief Historical Survey 19
3 The Literary Landscape 41
4 Histories of Forms 86
5 Poetry of Place 131
6 History and Historiography 161
7 Varieties of the Long Poem 186
8 Subject To, Subject Of 226
9 Anthologies and Groups 276
10 Epilogue: Beyond ‘British, ‘ ‘Irish, ‘
and ‘Poetry’ 296
References 312
Index 322
About the author
Michael Thurston his Professor of English at Smith
College. In addition to books on American political poets and the
Underworld descent in twentieth-century poetry, he has published
numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.
Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount
Holyoke College. He has published on both nineteenth- and
twentieth-century poetry.
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