English Poetry in Context: From the 16th to the 21st Century [[electronic resource] /] / by Ralf Hertel, Peter Hühn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910637717503321
• Autore: Hertel Ralf <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG : , : Imprint : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, , 2022
• ISBN: 3-503-20511-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 pages)
• Disciplina: 821.91408
• Soggetti: Philology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page 1 -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 16th and 17th Centuries: The Early Modern Period -- 1.1 Tudor Poetry -- Sir Thomas Wyatt, Whoso list to hunt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Alas! so all things now do hold their peace -- 1.2 The Elizabethan Period -- Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 1 -- Queen Elizabeth I, The Doubt of Future Foes -- Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen -- 1.3 William Shakespeare -- Sonnets 18 and -- 1.4 Metaphysical Poets -- John Donne, The Good-Morrow / Holy Sonnet 14 (Batter my heart) -- George Herbert, The Collar -- 1.5 An Early Modern Female Voice -- Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Sonnet 39 -- 1.6 Poetry of the Civil War -- Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress -- Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars -- 1.7 John Milton -- When I consider how my light is spent -- 2. 18th and 19th Centuries: From the Augustan Age to Romanticism -- 2.1 The Augustan Age -- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation -- Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning -- 2.2 Between Classicism and Romanticism -- Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard -- Charlotte Smith, Sonnet Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex -- 2.3 Early Romanticism -- William Blake, London / The Tyger -- 2.4 High Romanticism I -- William Wordsworth, Preface / I wandered lonely as a cloud / Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria / Kubla ; Khan -- 2.5 High Romanticism II -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Defense of Poetry / Ode to the West Wind / England in 1819 -- John Keats, Letters / Ode on a Grecian Urn -- 3. 19th Century Middle to Late: Victorianism -- 3.1 Victorianism I -- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses -- Robert Browning, My Last Duchess.; Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese: 44 -- Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach -- 3.2 Victorianism II -- Christina Rossetti, Winter: My Secret -- Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none -- Thomas Hardy, The Voice -- 4. Early 20th Century: Modernism -- 4.1 Early Modernism -- Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth -- Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro -- H. D., Oread -- 4.2 High Modernism I -- W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming / Sailing to Byzantium -- T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / Journey of the Magi -- 4.3 High Modernism II -- D. H. Lawrence, Snake -- Robert Graves, The Cool Web -- 4.4 The Thirties -- W. H. Auden, On this Island / In Memory of W. B. Yeats (d. 1939) -- Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music -- 5. From the Second Half of the 20th Century to the 21st Century -- 5.1 The Postwar Period -- Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London -- Philip Larkin, Church Going -- 5.2 Since the Late Fifties -- Charles Tomlinson, Cézanne at Aix -- Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting -- Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa -- Tony Harrison, Them &amp -- [Uz] -- Seamus Heaney, Act of Union -- 5.3. Recent Voices -- Eavan Boland, The Making of an Irish Goddess -- John Agard, Listen Mr Oxford Don -- Paul Muldoon, Quoof -- Carol Ann Duffy, Comprehensive -- John Burnside, Animals -- Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live -- Glyn Maxwell, Love Made Yeah -- Simon Armitage, Homecoming -- Outlook: British Poetry in the 21st Century -- Cover Page 4.
• Sommario/riassunto: “English Poetry in Context” offers an accessible, comprehensive survey of the genre from the early modern period to the present day. Situating close readings of selected poems within their larger literary and historical contexts, it is an ideal starting point for students, teachers and other readers looking for a book that maps out the field of English poetry. Whether you are interested in a comprehensive overview or in in-depth case studies of your favourite poems, “English Poetry in Context” will cater for your demands. Proceeding chronologically and discussing both canonical and less canonical poets, “English Poetry in Context” provides concise surveys of the periods discussed, biographical information on individual poets, case studies of their poems as well as suggestions for further reading. The book invites readers to look closely at what the poetic text, both in form and content, reveals about the context in which it was written, and to make individual poems and their larger historical contexts reflect upon each other.