Dowson, Jane, 1955-

A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry [Book /] Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 381 p. ; 23cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-362) and index.

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.

All Ages.

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English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century

PR605.W6 / D68 2005

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