Neil Roberts is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and also Chuo University in Japan. His publications on a wide range of contemporary poets, as well as on George Meredith and D.H Lawrence and Bakhtin, include Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (1999).

"Roberts has brought together an extraordinary collection of 48 engagingly written and informative essays. This reviewer is aware of no other volume covering the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth century. Recommended for all collections, this title will be a welcome reference and guide for undergraduate students and useful for specialists."--Choice

• Acknowledgements ixNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction 1Neil RobertsPART I Topics and Debates1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection 7Hugh Witemeyer2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors 21Peter Brooker and Simon Perril3 The Non-modernist Modern 37David Goldie4 Poetry and Politics 51Reed Way Dasenbrock5 Poetry and War 64Matthew Campbell6 Poetry and Science 76Tim Armstrong7 Poetry and Literary Theory 89Joanne Feit Diehl8 Poetry and Gender 101Edward Larrissy9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century 113Philip HobsbaumPART II Poetic Movements10 Imagism 127Jacob Korg11 The New Negro Renaissance 138William W. Cook12 Poetry and the New Criticism 153Stephen Burt and Jennifer Lewin13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse 168John Osborne14 The Beats 183John Osborne15 Confessionalism 197Lucy Collins16 The Movement 209Stephen Regan17 Language Poetry 220Simon PerrilPART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English18 West Indian Poetry 235Victor Chang19 African Poetry 249Kwadwo Osei-Nyame20 Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent 264Vinay Dharwadker21 Australian Poetry 281Livio Dobrez22 New Zealand Poetry 293Terry Sturm23 Canadian Poetry 304Cynthia Messenger24 Scottish Poetry 318Jeffrey Skoblow25 Welsh Poetry 329Douglas Houston26 Irish Poetry to 1966 343Alex DavisPART IV Readings27 Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912–13 359Tim Armstrong28 Robert Frost: North of Boston 369Alex Calder29 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 381John Haffenden30 D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers 392David Ellis31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and All 403Lisa M. Steinman32 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 414Philip Hobsbaum33 Marianne Moore: Observations 427Elizabeth Wilson34 W. B. Yeats: The Tower 437Terence Brown35 W. H. Auden: Poems 448Peter McDonald36 Elizabeth Bishop: North & South 457Jonathan Ellis37 Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos 469A. David Moody38 Robert Lowell: Life Studies 481Stephen Matterson39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch 491Peter McDonald40 Sylvia Plath: Ariel 500Sue Vice41 Ted Hughes: Crow 513Rand Brandes42 Seamus Heaney: North 524Bernard O’Donoghue43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 536David Herd44 Derek Walcott: Omeros 547Bruce WoodcockPART V The Contemporary Scene45 Contemporary American Poetry 559Roger Gilbert46 Contemporary British Poetry 571Sean O’Brien47 Contemporary Irish Poetry 585Lucy Collins48 Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry 596Jahan RamazaniIndex 610

Neil Roberts is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and also Chuo University in Japan. His publications on a wide range of contemporary poets, as well as on George Meredith and D.H Lawrence and Bakhtin, include Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (1999).

"Roberts has brought together an extraordinary collection of 48 engagingly written and informative essays. This reviewer is aware of no other volume covering the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth century. Recommended for all collections, this title will be a welcome reference and guide for undergraduate students and useful for specialists."--Choice

• Acknowledgements ixNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction 1Neil RobertsPART I Topics and Debates1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection 7Hugh Witemeyer2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors 21Peter Brooker and Simon Perril3 The Non-modernist Modern 37David Goldie4 Poetry and Politics 51Reed Way Dasenbrock5 Poetry and War 64Matthew Campbell6 Poetry and Science 76Tim Armstrong7 Poetry and Literary Theory 89Joanne Feit Diehl8 Poetry and Gender 101Edward Larrissy9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century 113Philip HobsbaumPART II Poetic Movements10 Imagism 127Jacob Korg11 The New Negro Renaissance 138William W. Cook12 Poetry and the New Criticism 153Stephen Burt and Jennifer Lewin13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse 168John Osborne14 The Beats 183John Osborne15 Confessionalism 197Lucy Collins16 The Movement 209Stephen Regan17 Language Poetry 220Simon PerrilPART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English18 West Indian Poetry 235Victor Chang19 African Poetry 249Kwadwo Osei-Nyame20 Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent 264Vinay Dharwadker21 Australian Poetry 281Livio Dobrez22 New Zealand Poetry 293Terry Sturm23 Canadian Poetry 304Cynthia Messenger24 Scottish Poetry 318Jeffrey Skoblow25 Welsh Poetry 329Douglas Houston26 Irish Poetry to 1966 343Alex DavisPART IV Readings27 Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912–13 359Tim Armstrong28 Robert Frost: North of Boston 369Alex Calder29 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 381John Haffenden30 D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers 392David Ellis31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and All 403Lisa M. Steinman32 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 414Philip Hobsbaum33 Marianne Moore: Observations 427Elizabeth Wilson34 W. B. Yeats: The Tower 437Terence Brown35 W. H. Auden: Poems 448Peter McDonald36 Elizabeth Bishop: North & South 457Jonathan Ellis37 Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos 469A. David Moody38 Robert Lowell: Life Studies 481Stephen Matterson39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch 491Peter McDonald40 Sylvia Plath: Ariel 500Sue Vice41 Ted Hughes: Crow 513Rand Brandes42 Seamus Heaney: North 524Bernard O’Donoghue43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 536David Herd44 Derek Walcott: Omeros 547Bruce WoodcockPART V The Contemporary Scene45 Contemporary American Poetry 559Roger Gilbert46 Contemporary British Poetry 571Sean O’Brien47 Contemporary Irish Poetry 585Lucy Collins48 Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry 596Jahan RamazaniIndex 610