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"The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations, and a historical context for each poet and their work.
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Here is the perfect introduction to the best poems written
since the start of the twentieth century, their authors and their themes.
Over 150 essential poems are accompanied by a brief discussion by poetry
authority Michael Schmidt that provides insight, observations and the
historical context for each poet and their work.
50 English-language poets are explored, including Thomas Hardy, A E
Housman, W B Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, D H
Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T S Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, John
Betjeman, W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted
Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and James Fenton.
With an introduction that suggests way to appreciate the poems, and a
glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, The
Great Modern Poets is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry
has to offer.
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"The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations, and a historical context for each poet and their work.
From the Inside Flap
Here is the perfect introduction to the best poems written
since the start of the twentieth century, their authors and their themes.
Over 150 essential poems are accompanied by a brief discussion by poetry
authority Michael Schmidt that provides insight, observations and the
historical context for each poet and their work.
50 English-language poets are explored, including Thomas Hardy, A E
Housman, W B Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, D H
Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T S Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, John
Betjeman, W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted
Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and James Fenton.
With an introduction that suggests way to appreciate the poems, and a
glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, The
Great Modern Poets is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry
has to offer.
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