Böcker av Eric (University of California Falci

The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world and demonstrates what poems can offer to twenty-first century readers. It argues that poems are vital spaces in which the complexities of thought, feeling, and memory are shaped and displayed, and that poems offer unique and crucial forms of readerly experience.

This book provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the poetry and provides in depth readings of many of the period's central poets.

Eric Falci traces the evolution of some of the most exciting poetry written since World War II. In detailed readings of well-known Irish poets such as Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian and Michael Longley, this book examines the changing roles of the poet within contemporary Irish culture.