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Strong words : modern poets on modern poetry / edited by W.N. Herbert & Matthew Hollis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: ‘You would think that anyone wanting to know about poetry would go to someone who knew something about it.’ That’s exactly what Bloodaxe has done with this judicious and comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos by some of modern poetry’s finest practitioners. Opening the 20th century account with Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the book moves through key later figures including W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith and Dylan Thomas. America is richly represented too, from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams to the influential New England poets Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath.
- Strong Words then brings the issues fully up to date with over 30 specially commissioned statements from contemporary writers including Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Simon Armitage, Selima Hill, Paul Muldoon and Douglas Dunn, amounting to a new overview of the poetry being written at the start of the 21st century. For poets and readers, for critics, teachers and students of creative writing and contemporary poetry, this is essential reading. As well as representing many of the most important poets of the last hundred years, Strong Words also charts many different stances and movements, from Modernism to Postmodernism and beyond. This landmark book champions the continuing dialogue of these voices, past and present, exploring the strongest form that words can take: the poem.-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78037-556-5
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