British Poetry since 1945 Author:Edward Lucie-Smith, Editor "A non-partisan survey of British poetry during the last forty years. Since this anthology was first published in 1970, the debate between the academic and the modernist approaches to poetry has sharpened considerably, with the claims of a highly accomplished conservatism successfully challenging those of the Liverpool poets and exploratory lit... more »le presses. In this revised edition Edward Lucie-Smith allows ample scope for such recent developments. New sections recognize the increased influence of the Northern Irish and 'university' poets, and, throughout, his sympathetic erudite commentaries render each poet--Larkin, Hughes, Porter, Heaney, Fenton, Raine, among others--immediately accessible. From Post-War to Movement, Expressionist to Post-Movement, he ably maps out the poetic terrain since the Second World War.« less