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This book draws on examples from throughout the twentieth century to illustrate the diversity of techniques used in this century's poetry.

Chapters Table of contents (9 chapters). About About this book. Pages 1-3. Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. This book draws on examples from throughout the twentieth century to illustrate the diversity of techniques used in this century's poetry.

Lesley Jeffries (author).

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It also includes, to some extent, the US, though the main article here is American literature. Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century

This book draws on examples from throughout the twentieth century to illustrate the diversity of techniques used in this century's poetry. ISBN13: 9780333459379.

The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium. The new century had begun with Great Britain involved in the South African War (the Boer War; 1899–1902), and it seemed to some that the British Empire was as doomed to destruction, both from within and from without, as had been the Roman Empire.

This book gives a linguistic overview of the first eight centuries of English poetry - years which produced such key works as Beowulf, Layaman's Brut and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It begins with chapters on the social and literary context, before turning in more detail to subjects such as poetic diction, rhymed and alliterative verse, borrowed words, recurrent phrases, rhetoric and linguistic variety.