This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of
influential women''s poetry. Leading international scholars offer
insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function
of poetry and the poets'' use of language, whether it is concerned
with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental
poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or
''confessional'' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well
established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwe
目錄:
1. Introduction Jane Dowson;
2. Postmodernist rhythms and voices: Edith Sitwell and Stevie
Smith to Jo Shapcott and Selima Hill Ian Gregson;
3. Reframing women''s war poetry Claire Buck;
4. Verbal and visual art in twentieth-century British women''s
poetry William May;
5. Towards a new confessionalism: Elizabeth Jennings and Sylvia
Plath Jane Dowson;
6. The ''mid-Atlantic imagination'': Mina Loy, Anne Stevenson, Ruth
Fainlight, Eva Salzman and Anne Rouse Melanie Petch;
7. The Irish history wars and Irish women''s poetry Catriona
Clutterbuck;
8. Interculturalism: Imtiaz Dharker, Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay
and contemporary Irish poets Lee M. Jenkins;
9. Post-pastoral perspectives on landscape and culture Alice
Entwistle;
10. Experimental ''work at the language-face'' Linda A.
Kinnahan;
11. Carol Ann Duffy, Medbh McGuckian and ruptures in the lines of
communication Brian Caraher; Guide to further reading; Index.