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The Cambridge History of English Poetry

Series The Cambridge History of English Poetry, Volume 1

Edited by Michael O'Neill

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521883061

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521883061

Overview

Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. An international team of experts explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland use language and to what effect, examining questions of form, tone, and voice; they comment, too, on how formal choices are inflected by the poet's time and place. The Cambridge History of English Poetry is the most comprehensive and authoritative history of the field from early medieval times to the present. It traces patterns of continuity, transformation, transition, and development. Covering a remarkable array of poets and poems, and featuring an extensive bibliography, the scope and depth of this major work of reference make it required reading for anyone interested in poetry.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Michael O'Neill

Old English poetry
by
Bernard O'Donoghue

The Gawain-poet and medieval romance
by
Corinne Saunders

Late fourteenth-century poetry (Chaucer, Gower, Langland and their legacy)
by
Wendy Scase

Langland: Piers Plowman
by
A.V.C. Schmidt

Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales
by
Laura Varnam

Late medieval literature in Scotland: Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas
by
Felicity Riddy

Sixteenth-century poetry: Skelton, Wyatt and Surrey
by
Elizabeth Heale

Spenser
by
Andrew Hadfield

Sidney, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan sonnet and lyric
by
Katharine A. Craik

The narrative poetry of Marlowe and Shakespeare
by
Paul Edmondson

Seventeenth-century poetry 1: poetry in the age of Donne and Jonson
by
Jonathan Post

Seventeenth-century poetry 2: Herbert, Vaughan, Philips, Cowley, Crashaw, Marvell
by
Alison Shell

Milton's shorter poems
by
Barbara K. Lewalski

Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes
by
Barbara K. Lewalski

Restoration poetry: Behn, Dryden and their contemporaries
by
Hester Jones

Dryden: major poems
by
Steven N. Zwicker

Swift
by
Claude Rawson

Poetry of the first half of the eighteenth century: Pope, Johnson and the couplet
by
Claude Rawson

Eighteenth-century women poets
by
Christine Gerrard

Longer eighteenth-century poems (Akenside, Thomson, Young, Cowper and others)
by
Richard Terry

Lyric poetry: 1740–1790
by
David Fairer

Romantic poetry: an overview
by
Seamus Perry

Blake's poetry and prophecies
by
John Beer

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads and other poems
by
Timothy Webb

Wordsworth's The Prelude and The Excursion
by
Alison Hickey

Second-generation Romantic poetry 1: Hunt, Byron, Moore
by
Jane Stabler

Byron's Don Juan
by
Bernard Beatty

Second-generation Romantic poetry 2: Shelley and Keats
by
Michael O'Neill

Third-generation Romantic poetry: Beddoes, Clare, Darley, Hemans, Landon
by
Michael Bradshaw

Women poets of the Romantic period (Barbauld to Landon)
by
Heidi Thomson

Victorian poetry: an overview
by
Richard Cronin

Tennyson
by
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
by
Herbert F. Tucker

Emily Brontë, Arnold, Clough
by
Michael O'Neill

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne
by
David G. Riede

Christina Rossetti and Hopkins
by
Catherine Phillips

Later Victorian voices 1: James Thomson, Symons, Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Housman
by
Nicholas Shrimpton

Later Victorian voices 2: Davidson, Kipling, ‘Michael Field’ (Bradley and Cooper), Lee-Hamilton, Kendall, Webster
by
Francis O'Gorman

Modernist and modern poetry: an overview
by
Jason Harding

Hardy and Mew
by
Ralph Pite

Yeats
by
Peter Vassallo

Imagism
by
Vincent Sherry

T. S. Eliot
by
Gareth Reeves

Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon and Edward Thomas
by
Mark Rawlinson

Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender: the thirties poetry
by
Michael O'Neill

Dylan Thomas and poetry of the 1940s
by
John Goodby

Larkin and the Movement
by
Stephen Regan

Three twentieth-century women poets: Riding, Smith, Plath
by
Alice Entwistle

Hughes and Heaney
by
Edward Larrissy

Hill
by
Andrew Roberts

Mahon, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian, Carson, Boland and other Irish poets
by
Stephen Regan

Contemporary poetries in English, c.1980 to the present 1: the radical tradition
by
Peter Barry

Contemporary poetries in English, c.1980 to the present 2
by
Jamie McKendrick

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