Product Description: The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poety in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad and Zimbabwe--anywhere where poets write in English...read more

Product Description: The fifteen years following World War II are an identifiable period in the history of modern British poetry and have been covered in this DLB volume through 44 biographical profiles. While few poets of the period dealt directly and intelligently with the atrocities of the War, a group of poets known as The Movement emerged in the mid-1950s with a shared determination to avoid both the ideological extremes of the recent War and the emotional excesses of romanticism...read more