(A) History of modern poetry: from the 1890s to the high modernist mode / by David Perkins

Includes index

PART 1: Poetry around the turn of the century British poetry in the 1890s: introduction The Victorian tradition and the Celtic twilight Ars Victrix: The London Avant-Grade The Narrative protest The American Milieu, 1890-1912 The beginning of the modern movement in America PART 2: Poetry in rapport with a public Transitions and premises Thomas Hardy Craftsmen of the beautiful and the agreeable The georgian poets Robert Frost The Irish Scene Poetry of World War I PART 3: Popular modernism The new poetry of America Imagism Poetry for a democracy Conservative and regional poets of America Black poets of America: The first phase British poetry after the war, 1918-1928 PART 4: The beginnings of the high modernist mode Ezra Pound: the early career T. S. Eliot: The early career The New York Avant-Grade: Stevens and Williams to the early 1920s and Marianne Moore William Butler Yeats