A history of modernist poetry

✍ Scribed by Davis, Alex;Jenkins, Lee Margaret

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 572
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Form in modernist poetry Fiona Green
   2. Myths and texts Michael Bell
   3. Politics and modernist poetry Michael Tratner
   4. Modernist poetry, sexuality, and gender Georgia Johnston
   5. Modernist poetry and race Timothy Yu
   6. Modernist magazines Paige Reynolds
   7. Modernism and decadence Vincent Sherry
   8. Edwardianism, Georgianism, Imagism, and Vorticism Helen Carr
   9. Early Eliot, Pound, and H. D. Miranda Hickman
   10. Yeats, modernism, and the Irish revival Gregory Castle
   11. The First World War and modernist poetry Andrew Palmer and Sally Minogue
   12. Gertrude Stein Charles Bernstein
   13. Mina Loy Sara Crangle
   14. Pound and Eliot: the years of l'entre deux guerres Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins
   15. American poetry in the 1910s and '20s: Stevens, Moore, Williams, and others Bart Eeckhout and Glen MacLeod
   16. American modernism from the 1930s to the '50s: Williams and Stevens to Black Mountain and the Beats Stephen Matterson
   17. African American modernism Mark Whalan
   18. Objectivist poets Mark Scroggins
   19. Later Eliot and Pound Jason Harding
   20. War modernism, 1918-45 Adam Piette
   21. Modernist peripheries: stony limits Eric Falci
   22. Postcolonial modernisms Jahan Ramazani
   23. Modernism after modernism Anthony Mellors.

✦ Subjects

English poetry;Literature;Modernism (Literature);War and literature;World War, 1914-1918--In literature;World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war;Criticism, interpretation, etc;World War, 1914-1918 -- In literature;World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war