Davis A., Jenkins L. (eds.). A History of Modernist Poetry

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 572 p. — ISBN10: 1107038677; ISBN13: 978-1107038677.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.Chronology
Introduction: Modernist Poetry in HistoryForm in Modernist Poetry
Myths and Texts
Politics and Modernist Poetry
Modernist Poetry, Sexuality, and Gender
Modernist Poetry and Race
Modernist PeriodicalsDecadence and Poetic Modernism
Edwardian, Georgian, Imagist, Vorticist, and 'Amygisf Poetry
Early Eliot, H.D., and Pound
Yeats, Modernism, and the Irish Revival
Modernism and First World War Poetry: Alternative LinesGertrude Stein
Mina Loy
Pound and Eliot: The Years of I'entre deux guerres
American Poetry in the 1910s and 1920s: Stevens, Moore, Williams, and Others
American Modernism from the 1930s to the 1950s: Williams and Stevens to Black Mountain and The Beats
African American Modernisms
Objectivist Poets
Later Eliot and PoundWar Modernism, 1918-1945
Stony Limits: Modernist Peripheries
Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial DirectionsCodaModernism after Modernism
P Guide to Further Reading