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This revised edition contains new sections which recognize the increased influence of the Northern Irish and university poets, and, throughout, the commentaries render each poet - Larkin, Hughes, Porter, Heaney, Fenton, Raine, among others - immediately accessible. From the post-war movement to the post-expressionist movement, the poetic terrain is mapped out since the World War II.… (más)
This book has lived on my poetry shelves for decades and is great for finding poems by poets - for example great to find three Stevie Smith poems after reading her novel recently. However although I shall keep it on the shelves I was very distressed to see there are only 6 women poets to 80 men poets and of the 10 sections that make up the book, most have none, shamefully the 'Scottish' section and 'New voices' have none. There also seem to be no poets at all from the Commonwealth, even in the section 'Influences from Abroad'. So I have read all the poems by women, all excellent and browsed a few of the others and it goes back on the shelf. ( )
This book has lived on my poetry shelves for decades and is great for finding poems by poets - for example great to find three Stevie Smith poems after reading her novel recently. However although I shall keep it on the shelves I was very distressed to see there are only 6 women poets to 80 men poets and of the 10 sections that make up the book, most have none, shamefully the 'Scottish' section and 'New voices' have none. There also seem to be no poets at all from the Commonwealth, even in the section 'Influences from Abroad'. So I have read all the poems by women, all excellent and browsed a few of the others and it goes back on the shelf. ( )
This revised edition contains new sections which recognize the increased influence of the Northern Irish and university poets, and, throughout, the commentaries render each poet - Larkin, Hughes, Porter, Heaney, Fenton, Raine, among others - immediately accessible. From the post-war movement to the post-expressionist movement, the poetic terrain is mapped out since the World War II.
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