Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke CollegeC. D. Blanton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley

“Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free of socio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measured historical overview and a critical introduction, and one can see that the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what are described as intricate negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies and positions.”  (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiiChronology xvIntroduction 1Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton1 Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars 11Vincent Sherry2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32Stephen Burt3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51Nigel Alderman4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72Michael Thurston5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92John P. Waters6 Poetry and Decolonization 111Jahan Ramazani7 Transatlantic Currents 134C. D. Blanton8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155Drew Milne9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176Linda A. Kinnahan10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200Eric Falci11 Poetry and Religion 221Romana Huk12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243Peter MiddletonReferences 264Index 285