| Description |
224 pages : portraits ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.) |
| Summary |
POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. The Great Modern Poets and CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. Each chapter comprises introductory quotations, an illustration, a biography of the poet, a selection of their key poems and simple explanations of the themes. With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems, and a glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, The Great Modern Poets and CD is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry has to offer. |
| Contents |
Book: Introduction -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- A.E. Houseman (1859-1936) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- Basil Bunting (1900-1985) -- Laura Riding (1901-1985) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- John Betjeman (1906-1984) -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- C.H. Sisson (1914-2003) -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- W.S. Graham (1918-1986) -- Keith Douglas (1920-1944) -- Edwin Morgan (b. 1920) -- Donald Davie (1922-1995) -- Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- James K. Baxter (1926-1972) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928) -- Thom Gunn (1929-2004) -- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) -- Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) -- Ted Hughes (1930-1998) -- Derek Wolcott (b. 1930) -- Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Les Murray (b. 1938) -- Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) -- Eavan Boland (b. 1944) -- James Fenton (b. 1949) -- Glossary. |
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CD:The lake isle of Innisfree / W.B. Yeats -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- So-and-so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens -- Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens -- Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams -- To Elsie / William Carlos Williams -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (II, IV, V) / Ezra Pound -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- as freedom is a breakfast food / e.e. cummings -- my father moved through dooms of love / e.e. cummings -- Pity this monster, manunkind / e.e. cummings -- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- A Shropshire lad / John Betjeman -- The licorice fields at Pontefract / John Betjeman -- Museé de Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- A refusal to mourn -- / Dylan Thomas -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- Home after three months away / Robert Lowell -- Howl / Allen Ginsberg -- Calypso / Kamau Brathwaite -- Thrushes / Ted Hughes -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Schmidt, Michael, 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780857382467 |
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0857382462 |
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9781848661233 |
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1848661231 |
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