Twentieth-Century Poetry

The editor, Peter Verdonk, is a Reader in English at the University of Amsterdam.

• Series editor’s introduction Introduction 1 To analyse a poem stylistically: ‘To Paint a Water Lily’ by Ted Hughes 2 Person to person: relationships in the poetry of Tony Harrison 3 Approaching Hill’s ‘Of Commerce and Society’ through lexis 4 The lyrical game: C. Day Lewis’s ‘Last Words’ 5 Between languages: grammar and lexis in Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Oxen’ 6 The auditory imagination and the music of poetry 7 Teach yourself ‘rhetoric’: an analysis of Philip Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ 8 (Non)-communication in the park 9 Poetry and public life: a contextualized reading of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Punishment’ 10 The difficult style of The Waste Land: a literary–pragmatic perspective on modernist poetry 11 The poem and occasion 12 ‘Yo soy la Malinche’: Chicana writers and the poetics of ethnonationalism