Book
The Harvill book of twentieth-century poetry in English / edited by Michael Schmidt.
Record details
- ISBN: 1860467350 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxxviii, 728 p.
- Publisher: London : Harvill Press, 2000, c1999.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
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| Subject: | English poetry > 20th century American poetry > 20th century |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 821.008 Har | 31681000954560 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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In his new anthology Michael Schmidt pays homage to the Modernist project of finding coherence within the chaos of the century. He presents and represents all the seismic shifts and conflicts of a turbulent century, from the modified Romanticism of the Georgians to the tragedy of AIDS in the 1980s, from the rage and resistance of the First World War poets to the drug-induced poetic experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The retreat of Empire set free a multitude of English poetries, from Australia to India. This work is well represented as are the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and northern-English poets who forced a way into a literature that often seemed to exclude them. Michael Schmidtâs book -- thoughtful, balanced and yet not afraid of the controversy that any such work invites -- is the definitive and most challenging anthology for the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
