{"product_id":"9780631215103","title":"Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry Hardy to Mahon","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Guides to Criticism\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHardy to Mahon\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMichael O'Neill | Madeleine Callaghan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O’Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here selected passages from the best recent critics and interwoven them with their own informed and illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion to one of the great ages of poetry in English.’\u003cbr\u003e Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/i\u003e offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an insightful narrative – which points up the major features of the poets and the chosen excerpts – Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, including essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics such as Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Featured poets include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Lawrence, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, Plath, Heaney, Mahon and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL O’NEILL\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of English Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel, was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMADELEINE CALLAGHAN\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Sheffild University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Byron, Shelley and Yeats for publication. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 February 2011\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780631215103\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e320\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379134525580,"sku":"9780631215103","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780631215103.jpg?v=1780235157","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780631215103","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}