A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry

Alice Entwistle author Jane Dowson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th May '05

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An invaluable and detailed critical analysis and record of a lively but undervalued literary community.

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a record and analysis of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for both scholars and students.A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a detailed evaluative documentary record of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. Part literary history, part critical analysis, this comprehensive survey is organised into three historical periods (1900–45, 1945–80 and 1980–2000), each part introduced by a comprehensive overview in which the emerging names are mapped against cultural, literary and poetic events and trends. Individual essays reflect and stimulate continuing debates about the nature of women's poetry and cover a range of canonical and lesser-known, but significant, poets. They offer critical approaches to reading poems that engage with, for example, war, domesticity, modernism, linguistic innovation, place, the dramatic monologue, postmodernism and the lyric. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for scholars and students of British poetry and women's writing.

"This is a commendable book and is scrupulously researched throughout. The extensive bibliograhpy alone will prove an invaluable resource to subsequent scholars." - William May, Balliol College, Oxford University

ISBN: 9780521819466

Dimensions: 236mm x 161mm x 30mm

Weight: 760g

404 pages