Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - Contexts

1 - Victorian to modern

pp 9-23

2 - Modernist poetic form

pp 24-41

3 - Postmodern poetry in Britain

pp 42-56

Part II - Moderns

4 - Fateful forms: A. E. Housman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas

pp 59-73

5 - D. H. Lawrence’s place in modern poetry

pp 74-86

6 - Wilfred Owen and the poetry of war

pp 87-102

Part III - Modernists

7 - The 1930s poetry of W. H. Auden

pp 105-116

8 - Keith Douglas and the poetry of the Second World War

pp 117-130

9 - Languages of modernism: William Empson, Dylan Thomas, W. S. Graham

pp 131-144

Part IV - Later Modernities

10 - Philip Larkin: a late modern poet

pp 147-158

11 - R. S. Thomas and modern Welsh poetry

pp 159-172

12 - Gender, feminism, poetry: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Jo Shapcott

pp 173-186

13 - Varieties of poetic sequence: Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill

pp 187-199

14 - Black British poetry and the translocal

pp 200-214

15 - Poetry and class: Tony Harrison, Peter Reading, Ken Smith, Sean O’Brien

pp 215-229

16 - A Scottish Renaissance: Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford, Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie

pp 230-244

17 - Lyric adaptations: James Fenton, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy

pp 245-258

Index

pp 259-268