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 .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 568 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 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.