The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2nd edition)

If you're searching your library catalogue for the first edition of this companion, then stop! The earlier edition has been so thoroughly revised that this second edition has been given a new title. The first edition appeared in 1994 carrying the title The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English and was edited single-handedly by Ian Hamilton. The revised title reflects a necessary shift in emphasis. In 1994 it was still possible to consider poetry from within the frame provided by a notion of the twentieth-century. In the second decade of the twenty-first century the same notion seems rather restrictive,...