This impressive volume provides over 1‎,‎500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day‎.‎ An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English‎,‎ in Britain and around the world‎,‎ this companion helps to illuminate the influences‎,‎ inspirations‎,‎ and movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best‎-loved poets‎.‎ First published in 1994 as the Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English and compiled by a team of 230 experts‎,‎ including famous poets such as Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion‎,‎ this edition also includes new biographical entries on more contemporary poets such as Don Paterson‎,‎ Anne Carson‎,‎ John Kinsella‎,‎ and Leslie Marmon Silko‎.‎ It also contains insightful entries by well‎-known peers‎,‎ such as Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath‎.‎ The A‎-Z biographies are complemented by new appendices including coverage of poetry groups and movements and lists of anthologies and important poetry prizes and prize‎-winners‎.‎ In addition‎,‎ many entries include details of in‎-depth supplementary material available online on the dedicated companion website‎.‎This superb reference work is the ideal companion for students of English Literature‎,‎ Language‎,‎ and Creative Writing‎,‎ as well as for anyone with an interest in modern poetry‎.‎