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Anthologies of British Poetry

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Anthologies of British Poetry

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From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing 'new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
355
Release Date:
2000-01-01
Publication Date:
2000-01-01
Publisher:
Brill
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
904201301X
ISBN13:
9789042013018
Weight:
494 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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