Product Description: Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light...read more

Product Description: Admired by Marx, quoted by August Bebel in the Reichstag, published by Rosa Luxemburg on the eve of the Spartakist uprising, banned by the Nazis, re-written by Brecht and by Wolf Biermann, Heine's Germany: A Winter's Tale is one of the most political poems in European history...read more

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Product Description: This collection of essays on one of the 20th century's most popular yet critically neglected authors explores the full range of Dylan Thomas's work. It uses approaches--such as Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction--previously neglected by critics and focuses on his complex relationships with surrealism, modernism, Wales, popular culture, the US, and his own contemporaries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Irish Poetry since 1950 is a survey of poetry, from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain, and the US. The five chapters of the book cover the 1950s, the 1960s, the early troubled period to 1976, the 1980s and the 1990s. Each poet is placed firmly within his or her historical and social contexts, with an emphasis on the response to the processes of modernization, the representation of violence, poetic form, and gender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Irish Poetry since 1950 is a survey of poetry, from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain, and the US. The five chapters of the book cover the 1950s, the 1960s, the early troubled period to 1976, the 1980s and the 1990s. Each poet is placed firmly within his or her historical and social contexts, with an emphasis on the response to the processes of modernization, the representation of violence, poetic form, and gender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)