English Poetry since 1940

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Editors’ Preface Longman Literature in English Series Author’s Preface Dedication PART ONE: (DIS)CONTINUITIES AND (DIS)PLACEMENTS AFTER MODERNISM Introduction 1 Eliot or Auden 2 Varieties of Parable 3 A Modernism in Place PART TWO: FROM THE FORTIES 4 A New Romanticism 5 The Poetry of a Second War 6 Two Solitudes PART THREE: FROM THE FIFTIES Introduction 7 A Movement Pursued 8 Movements 9 Negotiations PART FOUR: FROM THE SIXTIES Introduction 10 Some English Attitudes 11 Barbarians and Rhubarbarians 12 Varieties of Neo-Modernism 13 The Poetry of Northern Ireland PART FIVE: SINCE 1970 Introduction: Towards the Postmodern? 14 In Ireland or Someplace: A Second Generation From Northern Ireland 15 A Pen Mislaid: Some Varieties of Women’s Poetry 16 Grammars of Civilization? 17 Hiding in Fictions: Some New Narrative Poems Chronology General Bibliographies (i) Critical works (ii) Bibliographies and reference books (iii) Literary, historical, political and cultural contexts (iv) Anthologies Individual Authors Notes on biography, major works and suggested further reading Index