Pt. 1. Contexts. Modernist poetry in history / David Ayers -- Schools, movements, manifestoes / Paul Peppis -- The poetics of modernism / Peter Nicholls -- Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem / Cristanne Miller -- pt. 2. Authors and alliances. Pound or Eliot : Whose era? / Lawrence Rainey -- H.D. and revisionary myth-making / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Yeats, Ireland and modernism / Anne Fogarty -- Modernist poetry in the British Isles / Drew Milne -- US modernism I : Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric / Bonnie Costello -- US modernism II : The other tradition -- Williams, Zukofsky and Olson / Mark Scroggins -- The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance / Sharon Lynette Jones -- Caliban's modernity : Postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean / Jahan Ramazani -- pt. 3. Receptions. Modernist poetry and the canon / Jason Harding
Summary
This is a comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts
