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The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900
Michael Schmidt
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Paperback. Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems. Editor(s): Schmidt, Michael. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 538. Good copy with some shelf wear
Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many other major poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For each, Michael Schmidt has provided an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a greater understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.
Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many other major poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For each, Michael Schmidt has provided an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a greater understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Quercus
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848668669
SKU
KKD0007647
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Ref
99-1
About Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. He is a poet, novelist, translator, literary historian and anthologist. He is the managing director of the influential poetry publisher, Carcanet Press. His books include Lives of the Poets, The Story of Poetry, The First Poets and The Shakespeare Handbook (Quercus).
Reviews for The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900
'A judicious account of much-loved writers' Elaine Feinstein, The Times.
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