The 20th century in poetry
By: edited by Michael Hulse and Simon Rae
Edition: 1st  Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books; Distributed by Norton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 860
ISBN-13: 9781605983646
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: English poetry; Collections; Poetry; American poetry; Commonwealth poetry (English)
Other titles: Twentieth century in poetry
Description: A collection of over four hundred poems written in many parts of the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, including works by Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and John Updike, with brief biographies of each poet represented.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1900-1914. Never such innocence again; title: 1915-1922. War to Waste Land; title: 1923-1939. Danger and hope; title: 1940-1945. War; title: 1946-1968. Peace and Cold War; title: 1969-1988. From the moon to Berlin; title: 1989-2000. Endgames.