The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

	Notes on contributors	page viii
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Chronology	xii

	Introduction	1
	ALEX DAVIS AND LEE M.JENKINS
	PART 1 CONTEXTS
1	Modernist poetry in history	11
	DAVID AYERS

2	Schools, movements, manifestoes	28
	PAUL PEPPIS

3	The poetics of modernism	51
	PETER NICHOLLS

4	Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem	68
	CRISTANNE MILLER

	PART II AUTHORS AND ALLIANCES
5	Pound or Eliot: whose era?	87
	LAWRENCE RAINEY

6	H.D. and revisionary myth-making	114
	RACHEL BLAU Du PLESSIS

7	Yeats, Ireland and modernism	126
	ANNE FOGARTY

8	Modernist poetry in the British Isles	147
	DREW MILNE

9	US modernism I: Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric	163
	BONNIE COSTELLO

10	US modernism II: the other tradition – Williams, Zukofsky and Olson	181
	MARK SCROGGINS

11	The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance	195
	SHARON LYNETTE JONES

12	Caliban’s modernity: postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean	207
	JAHAN RAMAZANI

	PART III RECEPTION
13	Modernist poetry and the canon	225
	JASON HARDING

	Guide to further reading	244
	Index	251

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