Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

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.

• Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction: “Postwar,” “British,” “Irish,” and “Poetry” 12 A Brief Historical Survey 193 The Literary Landscape 414 Histories of Forms 865 Poetry of Place 1316 History and Historiography 1617 Varieties of the Long Poem 1868 Subject To, Subject Of 2269 Anthologies and Groups 27610 Epilogue: Beyond “British,” “Irish,” and “Poetry” 296References 312Index 322

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