Poetry : the ultimate guide /
Richard Bradford.
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- xii, 270 p. : 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-266) and index.
WHAT IS POETRY? -- The Basics -- A Definition of Poetry: The Double Pattern -- HISTORY: THE RENAISSANCE TO POSTMODERNISM -- The Renaissance -- The Restoration and the 18th Century -- Romanticism -- Victorian Poetry -- Modernism and After -- CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS -- New Criticism -- Formalism and Structuralism -- The Role of the Reader and Poststructuralism -- History, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism -- Psychoanalysis -- Deconstruction -- Gender -- Nation, Race and Place -- Evaluation. Machine generated contents note: pt. I 1. 2. pt. II 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. pt. III 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.