Features four hundred entries covering famous poetry, poets, and forms of the period.

The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.

Presents a comprehensive A to Z reference with approximately 450 entries providing facts about contemporary British poets, including their major works of poetry, concepts and movements.

Provides alphabetically arranged entries about major British poets, poetry, and poetic forms of the nineteenth century.

In his comprehensive analysis of this prolific and dramatic period in the composition of verse, James Persoon discuses the important works of these artists as well as those of Britain's lesser known poets." "Persoon insists on the centrality of war in considering British poetry of this period, using the awareness of war in British life as his primary metaphor."--BOOK JACKET.