The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

This addition to the well-established Cambridge Companions series shares affinities with earlier titles notably The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry (Corcoran, 2007) (RR 2008/348) and to a lesser extent The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry (Dawson, 2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Campbell, 2003). The title of these volumes signals the area of focus within each. British Poetry, 1945-2010 shares similarities but, as its own title indicates, is concerned with what might be signalled by the term “British Poetry” and extends its concern...