Twentieth-century poetry : from text to context / edited by Peter Verdonk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To analyse a poem stylistically : To paint a water lily by Ted Hughes / Mick Short -- Person to person : relationships in the poetry of Tony Harrison / H.G. Widdowson -- Approaching Hill's Of commerce and society through lexis / Michael Toolan -- The lyrical game : C. Day Lewis' Last words / Walter Nash -- Between languages : grammar and lexis in Thomas Hardy's The oxen / Ronald Carter -- The auditory imagination and the music of poetry / Richard D. Cureton -- Teach yourself "rhetoric" : an analysis of Philip Larkin's Church going / Katie Wales -- (Non)-communication in the park / Ruth Waterhouse -- Poetry and public life : a contextualized reading of Seamus Heaney's Punishment / Peter Verdonk -- The difficult style of The waste land / Roger D. Sell -- The poem and the occasion / Balz Engler -- "Yo soy la Malinche" : Chicana writers and the poetics of ethnonationalism / Mary Louise Pratt.

Summary:
This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience, makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts.

English

Sagar Shahanawaz