The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

✍ Scribed by Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Chronology......Page 13
Introduction......Page 20
1 Modernist poetry in history......Page 28
2 Schools, movements, manifestoes......Page 45
3 The poetics of modernism......Page 68
4 Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem......Page 85
5 Pound or Eliot whose era......Page 102
6 H.D. and revisionary myth-making......Page 129
7 Yeats, Ireland and modernism......Page 141
8 Modernist poetry in the British Isles......Page 162
9 US modernism I Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric......Page 178
10 US modernism II the other tradition - Williams, Zukofsky and Olson......Page 196
11 The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance......Page 210
12 Caliban’s modernity postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean......Page 222
13 Modernist poetry and the canon......Page 238
Guide to further reading......Page 257
Index......Page 264