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This History provides a concise overview of the developments of British poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume brings together experts in the field and offers a series of introductions to key poetic genres, poetic conventions and recent debates. The 31 chapters trace major developments in the history of British poetry, featuring poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, David Dabydeen, and many more. Instead of presenting a ‘comprehensive’ survey of British poetry, this History provides in-depth analyses of selected poems, linking them to the multiple cultural, social and aesthetic contexts of their time. In addition to presenting an array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of poetry, each chapter assesses crucial generic changes and aesthetic concerns that had an impact on processes of production, distribution, and reception of poetry. As such, the handbook offers an essential guide to both teachers and students, to specialists and non-specialists of poetry alike.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. An Outline of the Challenges, Features and Objectives of A History of British Poetry
SIBYLLE BAUMBACH, ANSGAR NÜNNING & BIRGIT NEUMANN
2. Anglo-Saxon Heroic and Elegiac Poetry: ¿Deor¿
ANDREW JAMES JOHNSTON
3. Middle English Narrative Poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer
ANNETTE KERN-STAHLER
4. Genres and Developments in Medieval Poetry: The Fifteenth Century
WOLFRAM KELLER
5. English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Anne Locke and the Petrarchan Sonnet Tradition
ANJA MÜLLER-WOOD
6. Genres and Developments in Elizabethan Poetry I: Edmund Spenser
CLAUDIA OLK
7. Genres and Developments in Elizabethan Poetry II: Shakespeare's Sonnets
SIBYLLE BAUMBACH
8. Secular Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne, Thomas Carew and Katherine Philips
ANDRÉ OTTO
9. Religious Metaphysical Poetry: George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
MATTHIAS BAUER
10. Poetry and Politics in the Civil War Period: Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips
INGO BERENSMEYER
11. Restoration Satiric and Erotic Poetry: The Court Wits, The Earl of Rochester
and Aphra Behn
JÜRGEN KAMM
12. The Augustan Age and the Mock-Heroic Poem: Alexander Pope's ¿The Rape of the Lock¿
BIRGIT NEUMANN
13. Poetic Genres in the Augustan Age: Jonathan Swift and Verse Satire
JENS MARTIN GURR
14. Scottish Poetry: James Macpherson and Robert Bums
CORDULA LEMKE
15. Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age:
Mary Leapor and Charlotte Smith
SANDRA HEINEN
16. Early Romanticism: Thomas Chatterton, William Cowper and William Blake
RALF HAEKEL
17. Poetic Genres in the Romantic Age I: Nature Poetry and William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
KAI MERTEN
18. Poetic Genres in the Romantic Age II: Percy Bysshe Shelley's, John Keats's and
Lord Byron's Odes
UTE BERNS
19. Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age I: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's and
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Post-Romantic Verse Narratives
ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN
20. Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age II: Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Love Poetry
RENATE BROSCH
21. Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age III: Algernon Charles Swinburne
VIRGINIA RICHTER
22. Genres and Developments in Fin-de-siecle Urban Poetry between Naturalism and Aestheticism: William Ernest Henley, John Davidson and Arthur Symons
ANSGAR NÜNNING
23. Poetic Responses to the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and
Isaac Rosenberg
MARTIN LÖSCHNIGG
24. Poetic Tendencies in the Age of High Modernism I: W.B. Yeats and T.S.Eliot
PETER HÜHN
25. Poetic Developments and Genres in the Age of High Modernism II:D.H. Lawrence
ANNA-MARGARETHA HORATSCHEK
26. Poetry of the Thirties and Forties: W.H. Auden and Dylan Thomas
PATRICK GILL
27. Poetry of the Fifties and Sixties between Innovation and Tradition: Philip Larkin and the Movement
JOANNA ROSTEK
28. Poetic Genres and Developments in the 1970s and 1980s: SeamusHeaney and
Ted Hughes
MARION GYMNICH
29. Contemporary Feminist Poetry: Vicki Feaver and Carol Ann Duffy
EVA ZETTELMANN
30. West Indian British Poetry: John Agard, James Berry, Fred D'Aguiar, and Grace Nichols
GEROLD SEDLMAYR
31. New Departures and Developments: Contemporary British Poetry
BIRGIT NEUMANN & SIBYLLE BAUMBACH