Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Twentieth-Century British Poets (2011) (305p) [Inua].pdf

Title: Twentieth-Century British Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Editor: Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Library Binding: 295 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (September 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604139900
ISBN-13: 978-1604139907

Description:
This series provides the best contemporary criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights - from the ancients to contemporary writers.

Editor’s Note
My introduction traces the range of poetic lights produced in Britain in the twentieth century, from the skeptical laments of Thomas Hardy to the severe and urgent work of Seamus Heaney.
Dominic Hibberd remains the leading Owen scholar and here notes the poet’s combining of romantic notions of pity with the war subjects he knew so well. Robert Langbaum follows with a deft rendering of Hardy’s precarious position on the cusp of modernism.
Helen Vendler explores the contradictory imperatives informing Heaney’s eighth volume, followed by Stan Smith’s exploration of Yeats, who, like Milton, Wordsworth, and Coleridge before him, attempted to rewrite the “book of the people.”
Andrew Swarbrick takes up the final collection Philip Larkin published in his lifetime, after which Rainer Emig examines the philosophical strain in W.H. Auden’s late works.
Lawrence Rainey returns us to the enduring appeal of The Waste Land, followed by Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle’s overview of the dialogic practices of some of Britain’s leading women poets.
Tim Kendall offers a reading of war as an abiding concern in the poetry of Ted Hughes. Keith Sagar concludes the volume with a look at D.H. Lawrence’s rich final phase.