This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Preface Acknowledgements
1. Poetry Today: The Place of the Anthology
2.
Robert Graves and David Jones
3. John Betjeman and William Plomer
4. W.H.
Auden, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
5. George Barker, David
Gascoyne, W.S. Graham, Lawrence Durrell, Norman Nicholson
6. Stevie Smith,
Geoffrey Grigson, Roy Fuller, R.S. Thomas, Gavin Ewart, Charles Causley
7.
'The Movement' and After
8. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
9. Geoffrey Hill
10.
'The Group' and After
11. Scotland and Wales
12. Ireland: North and South
13.
'Pop' and After
14. Tony Harrison, Douglas Dunn, James Fenton, Wendy Cope
15.
Vernon Scannell, U.A. Fanthorpe, P. J. Kavenagh, Alaistair Elliot, Andrew
Motion, Blake Morrison, Sean O'Brien, Peter Reading
16. John Fuller, Hugo
Williams,Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Kit Wright, John Whitworth, Peter
Scupham, John Mole, George Szirtes
17. Some Women 18.'The New Generation' 19
'The Poetry Business' Select Bibliography Index
Anthony Thwaite
