Asian Poets is a single-volume monograph that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Asian Poets discuss such influential poets as Marilyn Chin, Wang Wei, Matsuo Basho, and Kenji Miyazawa.
Eastern European Poets is a single-volume monograph that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Eastern European Poets discuss such influential poets as Paul Celan, Itzik Manger, Anna Swir, and Adam Zagajewski.
Latin American Poets is a single-volume monograph that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Latin American Poets discuss such influential poets as Jorge Luis Borges, Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz.
While this is a worthwhile study and correctly identifies motivations and undercurrents, particularly in the author's choice of, mainly, Northern Irish poets, the fact that not even one of the exceptional women poets writing in Ireland today is included, means that the work does not reflect contemporary Ireland. Not in the whole, that is. Besides, the South also has a lot to share with the world. Maybe this is just an unfortunate choice of title? But the book is good: Neil Corcoran is one of Britain's most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry.
Critical Survey of Poetry profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major poets. Originally published in 1983 and revised in 1993, the latest edition adds 146 poets, covering 843 poets in total. The set includes two volumes of Topical Essays, covering regions, themes, movements, and criticism. All original essays were revised, in many cases by the original contributor. Also, essays have been arranged in several subsets, so that libraries can choose the complete set, or only the titles in which they are interested.
