Description
Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, schools and movements within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period.
Trade Review“This Companionis thoroughly recommended for university libraries supporting degree programmes in English literature or American literature and public libraries seeking contemporary scholarship to augment their poetry collections.” (Reference Reviews, 1 September 2015)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald
1 Rhythm, Form, and Diction in Modernist Poetry 4
Michael H. Whitworth
Part I Influences and Institutions 21
2 Urbanism 23
Julia E. Daniel
3 The Visual Arts 34
Leonard Diepeveen
4 Music 47
Brad Bucknell
5 Fiction 58
John Xiros Cooper
6 Science and Technology 69
Katy Price
7 Popular Culture 81
Michael Coyle
8 Religion: Orthodoxies and Alternatives 95
Lara Vetter
9 Politics 107
Sascha Bru
10 War and Empire 119
Vincent Sherry
11 Psychology and Sexuality 132
Gabrielle McIntire
12 Symbolism and Decadence 144
Barry J. Faulk
13 The European Avant-Garde 157
Michael Levenson
14 Little Magazines 172
Suzanne W. Churchill
15 Modernist Criticism 185
Chris Baldick
Part II Groups and Groupings 197
16 The Georgian Poets and the Genteel Tradition 199
Meredith Martin and Erin Kappeler
17 The New Poetry 209
John Timberman Newcomb
18 Poetry of the Great War 222
Eve C. Sorum
19 The Harlem Renaissance 234
Karen Jackson Ford
20 The Fugitives 246
Gail McDonald
21 Modernist Women Poets 256
Miranda Hickman
22 Left Poetry 267
Walter Kalaidjian
23 Objectivism 281
Stephen Cope
24 World Modernist Poetry in English 296
Omaar Hena
25 Modernism: The Next Generation 310
Susan Rosenbaum
Part III Poets 323
26 Thomas Hardy 325
Tim Armstrong
27 W. B. Yeats 335
Steven Matthews
28 Gertrude Stein 348
Susan Holbrook
29 Robert Frost 358
Robert Faggen
30 Wallace Stevens 367
Malcolm Woodland
31 Mina Loy 380
Cristanne Miller
32 William Carlos Williams 389
Christopher MacGowan
33 D. H. Lawrence 402
Holly A. Laird
34 Ezra Pound 412
Rebecca Beasley
35 H.D. 425
Helen Sword
36 Marianne Moore 438
Robin G. Schulze
37 T. S. Eliot 450
Anthony Cuda
38 Claude McKay 464
William J. Maxwell
39 Edna St. Vincent Millay 474
Melissa Bradshaw
40 Hugh MacDiarmid 484
Margery Palmer McCulloch
41 E. E. Cummings 494
Michael Webster
42 David Jones 505
Thomas Dilworth
43 Melvin Tolson 515
Kathy Lou Schultz
44 Hart Crane 526
Sunny Stalter-Pace
45 Langston Hughes 536
David E. Chinitz
46 W. H. Auden 551
Stan Smith
Conclusion: Modernist Poetry Today 563
47 Contemporary Critical Trends 565
Matthew Hofer
Index 578
