Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth-century. Incorporates new readings of key selected texts. Embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries. Fully integrates women poets, feminist approaches and post-colonial poets. About the Author: Neil Roberts is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and also Chuo University in Japan. His publications on a wide range of contemporary poets, as well as on George Meredith and D.H Lawrence and Bakhtin, include Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry (1999).