British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s

Chapter 1 Introduction: Poetry, Politics and Tradition

Chapter 2 Basil Bunting: Briggflatts

Chapter 3 ‘Never Such Innocence Again’: The Poetry of Philip Larkin

Chapter 4 Poetic Subjects: Tony Harrison and Peter Reading

Chapter 5 Salvaged from the Ruins: Ken Smith’s Constellations

Chapter 6 Dance of Being: The Poetry of Peter Redgrove

Chapter 7 Seamus Heaney: From Revivalism to Postmodernism

Chapter 8 ‘Some Sweet Disorder’ — the Poetry of Subversion: Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian

Chapter 9 The Gaelic Renaissance: Sorley Maclean and Derick Thomson

Chapter 11 ‘Half of My Seeing’: the English Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith

Chapter 12 Vernon Watkins and R. S. Thomas

Chapter 13 Anthologies of Women’s Poetry: Canon-Breakers; Canon-Makers

Chapter 14 Women Poets and ‘Women’s Poetry’: Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke and Carol Rumens

Chapter 15 They Say, They Say, They Say: Some New Voices of the Nineties