A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry

Publication Data

• Title A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry
• Author Jane Dowson
• Contributor Alice Entwistle
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

1900-45: Overview
Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush
A public voice: war, class and women's rights
Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell
'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue
1945-1980: Overview
Stevie Smith
The postwar generation and the paradox of home
The poetry of consciousness-raising
Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley
1980-2000: Overview
'These parts': identity and place
Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others
Postmodern transformations: science and myth
The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation.

Topics

• English poetry :: Women authors :: History and criticism
• Women and literature :: Great Britain :: History :: 20th century
• 013147475

A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry by Jane Dowson. ISBN 9780521819466. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.