Poetry and Contemporary Culture: The Question of Value

Edinburgh University Press &
Columbia University Press, 2002.

Andrew Michael Roberts and
Jonathan Allison, eds.

A collection of new essays by leading American and British scholars on the subject of how poetry is valued, represented, and mediated in contemporary culture both American and British. Includes essays on the use of poetry on television, film, and the internet, and essays on nationalism, race, democracy, and the Avant-Garde.