A History of Modernist Poetry

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

Alex Davis (Edited by), Lee M. Jenkins (Edited by)

9781107038677, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 April 2015

572 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 1.01 kg

'… a readable, engaging and infectious introduction to the world of Modernist poetry.' Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]