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NICKY MARSH works on contemporary poetry and fiction, her recent works include Democracy in Contemporary U.S Women's Poetry and Money, Finance, and Speculation and Finance in Recent British Fiction. PETER MIDDLETON is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry, (with Tim Woods) Literatures of Memory, The Inward Gaze, and Aftermath (poems), and articles on science and poetry, climate change, and contemporary poets.
'This valuable collection touches on a wide range of concerns: how might individual poems be discussed productively in seminars; how can questions of form be related to historical issues; should allusions be tracked down and explicated or should they be left to resonate in readers' minds, opening interpretation up rather than closing it down; to what extent is it reasonable to speak of two ""modernisms"", the ""break"" between them being roughly marked by the Second World War; how can teachers address modernism's often reactionary politics and how might pedagogy be radicalised... All the essays published here have valuable contributions to make to these questions, but those by Peter Nicholls, Drew Milne, Harriet Tarlo and Peter Middleton are especially rewarding. This volume will not be of interest to just teachers of modernist history but also to researchers; the emphasis it places on pedagogy is especially useful, but most essays have equally valuable things to say about the history, intellectual range, linguistic complexity and political implications of modernist poetry and its continuing legacies.' - Routledge ABES June 2011
