The Cambridge History of English Poetry

Table of Contents

Introduction Michael O'Neill
1. Old English poetry Bernard O'Donoghue
2. The Gawain-poet and medieval romance Corinne Saunders
3. Late fourteenth-century poetry (Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and their legacy) Wendy Scase
4. Langland: Piers Plowman A. V. C. Schmidt
5. Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales Laura Varnam
6. Late-medieval literature in Scotland: Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas Felicity Riddy
7. Sixteenth-century poetry: Skelton, Wyatt and Surrey Elizabeth Heale
8. Spenser Andrew Hadfield
9. Sidney, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan sonnet and lyric Katharine A. Craik
10. The narrative poetry of Marlowe and Shakespeare Paul Edmondson
11. Seventeenth-century poetry 1: poetry in the age of Donne and Jonson Jonathan Post
12. Seventeenth-century poetry 2: Herbert, Vaughan, Philips, Cowley, Crashaw, Marvell Alison Shell
13. Milton's shorter poems Barbara K. Lewalski
14. Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes Barbara K. Lewalski
15. Aphra Behn, John Dryden and their contemporaries Hester Jones
16. Dryden: major poems Steven N. Zwicker
17. Swift Claude Rawson
18. Poetry of the first half of the eighteenth century: Pope, Johnson and the couplet Claude Rawson
19. Eighteenth-century women poets Christine Gerrard
20. Longer eighteenth-century poems (Akenside, Goldsmith, Thomson, Young, Cowper, and others) Richard Terry
21. Lyric poetry:
1740–90 David Fairer
22. Romantic poetry: an overview Seamus Perry
23. William Blake's poetry and prophecies John Beer
24. Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads and other poems Timothy Webb
25. Wordsworth's The Prelude and The Excursion Alison Hickey
26. Second-generation Romantic poetry 1 (Hunt, Byron, Moore) Jane Stabler
27. Byron's Don Juan Bernard Beatty
28. Second-generation Romantic poetry 2 (Shelley and Keats) Michael O'Neill
29. Third-generation Romantic poetry: Beddoes, Darley, Clare, Hemans, Landon Michael Bradshaw
30. Women poets of the Romantic period (Barbauld to Landon) Heidi Thomson
31. Victorian poetry: an overview Richard Cronin
32. Tennyson Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
33. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Herbert Tucker
34. Emily Brontë, Arnold, and Clough Michael O'Neill
35. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne David G. Riede
36. Christina Rossetti and Hopkins Catherine Phillips
37. Later Victorian voices 1 (James Thomson, Symons, Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Housman) Nicholas Shrimpton
38. Later Victorian voices 2: John Davidson, Rudyard Kipling, 'Michael Field' (Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper), Eugene Lee-Hamilton, May Kendall, Augusta Webster Francis O'Gorman
39. Modernist and modern poetry: an overview Jason Harding
40. Hardy and Mew Ralph Pite
41. Yeats Peter Vassallo
42. Imagism Vincent Sherry
43. T. S. Eliot Gareth Reeves
44. Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon, and Edward Thomas Mark Rawlinson
45. Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender: the thirties poetry Michael O'Neill
46. Dylan Thomas and poetry of the 1940s John Goodby
47. Larkin and the Movement Stephen Regan
48. Three twentieth-century women poets: Laura Riding, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath Alice Entwistle
49. Hughes and Heaney Edward Larrissy
50. Hill Andrew Michael Roberts
51. Mahon, Muldoon, McGuckian, Carson, Boland and other Irish poets Stephen Regan
52. Contemporary poetries in English: c.1980 to the present 1 - the radical tradition Peter Barry
53. Contemporary poetries in English, c.1980 to the present 2 Jamie McKendrick
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