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This book recognizes that modernist poetry can be both difficult and rewarding to teach. Leading scholars and poets from the UK and the US offer practical, innovative, up to date strategies for teaching the reading and writing of modernist poetry across its long diverse histories, taking in experimentation, performance, hypertext and much more.

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A collection of practical and informative essays by leading poets and critics on effective and innovative ways to teach modernist poetry today Modernist poetry has a reputation for difficulty as well as brilliance, obscurity as well as innovations central to modern culture. Modernist poets have experimented with form, subject matter, visual appearance, oral performance, publication, and every aspect of the material and intellectual culture of the poem. Helping students to recognise and understand the energies and interventions at work in this poetry makes great demands on the teacher of literature. In this timely book, leading poets and scholars discuss the pleasures and challenges of teaching the exciting, diverse field of modernist poetry from the beginning of the last century to the present. You will find here many practical classroom ideas, along with plenty of useful information about poets, poems, critics and histories of poetry.

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Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Pedagogy and Poetics; N.Marsh The Elusive Allusion: Poetry as Exegesis; P.Nicholls Politics and Modernist Poetics; D.Milne Science and Poetry; M.H.Whitworth ´The New comes forward´: Anglo-American Modernist Women Poets; H.Tarlo Race, Modernism and Institutions; C.Sweeney Contemporary British Modernisms; P.Barry Modernist Pedagogy at the End of the Lecture: IT and the Poetics Classroom; A.Filreis Reading and Writing Through Found Materials: from modernism to contemporary practice; R.Olsen Experiment in Practice and Speculation in Poetics; R.Sheppard Wreading, Writing, Wresponding; C.Bernstein Early Modernism, Late Modernism, and Interpretative Ingenuity; P.Middleton Index

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CHARLES BERNSTEIN Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA PETER BARRY Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK AL FILREIS Kelly Professor, Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, USA DREW MILNE Judith E Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge, UK PETER NICHOLLS Professor of English, New York University, USA REDELL OLSEN Course Director, MA in Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ROBERT SHEPPARD Professor of Poetry and Poetics, Edge Hill University, UK CAROLE SWEENEY Lecturer in Modern Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK HARRIET TARLO Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University, UK MICHAEL H. WHITWORTH Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and University Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK

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