In 450 entries ranging in length from 300 to more than 2,500 words each, ""The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry: 1900 to the Present"" is a new A-to-Z encyclopedic guide that introduces high school and college students to some of the best-loved 20th and 21st-century British poets and poetry. Appendixes include a general bibliography and a glossary of poetic terms.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Companion To Literature .

There are 568 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2009 by Facts On File Inc .

This book has the following chapters: Poets, from the turn-of-the-century masters to today's most highly acclaimed, including Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Wilfred Owen, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill; Major poems, such as ""Anthem for Doomed Youth,"" ""Sailing to Byzantium,"" ""September 1, 1939,"" and ""Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"" Important themes, topics, and movements.