The Great Modern Poets: The Best Poetry Of Our Times

Author: Michael Schmidt

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Description

"The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations, and a historical context for each poet and their work.

Author description

Michael Schmidt is Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University. He also runs the important poetry publisher, Carcanet Press, and is the author of The Story of Poetry and The First Poets.

Table of contents

Thomas Hardy A. E. Housman Rudyard Kipling W. B. Yeats Charlotte Mew Robert Frost Edward Thomas Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams D. H. Lawrence Ezra Pound Robinson Jeffers Marianne Moore T. S. Eliot Hugh MacDiarmid Edna St Vincent Mi