A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's PoetryA History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry is divided into three sections, 1900-1945; 1945-1980; 1980-2000. It documents the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. An 'Overview' of each period explores the particular challenges and opportunities for women while the chapters discuss the major poets, as individuals or ingroups connected by their context and practice. These essays reflect and stimulatecontinuing debates about the nature of women's poetry. This work is an invaluable resourcefor scholars students and interested readers. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
190045 OVERVIEW | 7 |
Lyrical androgyny | 29 |
A public voice war class and womens rights | 43 |
Modernism memory and masking Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell | 58 |
I will put myself and everything I see upon the page Charlotte Mew Sylvia Townsend Warner Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue | 71 |
194580 OVERVIEW | 85 |
Stevie Smith | 109 |
19802000 OVERVIEW | 169 |
These parts identity and place | 197 |
Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others | 212 |
Postmodern transformations science and myth | 227 |
The renovated lyric from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation | 240 |
Afterword | 253 |
Notes | 257 |
Bibliography | 302 |
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A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry Jane Dowson,Alice Entwistle No preview available - 2009 |
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