In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense

Searchable database of information culled from the 1996 paperback edition of the Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English.

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how thepoetry produced in the United States during the twentieth centuryis connected to the country’s int

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic stru