Cambridge Companion To Twentieth-Century British and Irish, The - Women´S Poetry
Jane Dowson
This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women´s poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets´ use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or ´confessional´ lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jennings to Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland and Jo Shapcott. They also include poets at the forefront of poetry trends, such as Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Medbh McGuckian and Carol Ann Duffy. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets.
• Extensive coverage of key poets across the century from Mina Loy to Carol Ann Duffy • Discusses the critical reception of women´s poetry in detail, with suggestions for key studies for further reading • Makes connections between poets, works and themes, offering new ways of reading women´s poetry.