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Scanning The Century - The Penguin Book Of The Twentieth Century In Poetry

by Poetry Society, Peter Forbes
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Verse for every era of modernity.

This anthology offers a diverse range of poetic voices that captures the essence of the twentieth century through its various historical, cultural, and social movements. From the avant-garde to the traditional, this book offers a rich exploration of poetry across the century, ensuring that no matter what your personal taste, you will find something that resonates with you.

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Scanning The Century - The Penguin Book Of The Twentieth Century In Poetry

by Poetry Society, Peter Forbes
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ISBN: 9780140588996
Authors: Poetry Society, Peter Forbes
Publisher: Puffin
Date of Publication: 2000-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry
Goodreads rating: 3.89
(rated by 65 readers)

Description

The 20th century has been one of great turbulence, profound shifts in sensibility, and enormous changes in lifestyle. As this anthology brilliantly demonstrates, the poetry of the last hundred years has been both a mirror and a gloss to the age. Drawing on poetry written in English and in translation, Peter Forbes' aim has been to capture this century's flavor "with something like the tang of newsreel and the zest of popular song." There are 39 sections, which run the gamut of from Omens (Brodsky, Hardy, Kipling) to The Jazz Age (Mayakovsky, Eliot, Hughes), from The Holocaust (Auden, Rumens, Levi) to The Sixties (Dylan, Lennon, McCartney), from The Arts (Stevens, Prvert, Yevtushenko) to Love and Sex (Larkin, Adcock, Gunn). As ambitious, various, and energetic as its subject, Scanning the Century offers both history and poetry in one artful and illuminating volume. Peter Forbes is the editor of Poetry Review.
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Verse for every era of modernity.

This anthology offers a diverse range of poetic voices that captures the essence of the twentieth century through its various historical, cultural, and social movements. From the avant-garde to the traditional, this book offers a rich exploration of poetry across the century, ensuring that no matter what your personal taste, you will find something that resonates with you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.