(A) History of modern poetry: modernism and after / by David Perkins

Includes index

PART 1: The age of high modernism The ascendancy of T. S. Eliot, 1925-1950 Eliot's later career Modes of modern style in the United States Hart Crane The poetry of critical intelligence The period style of the 1930s in England W. H. Auden The English romantic revival PART 2: The resurgence of Pound, Williams, and Stevens Reappraising the modernists Ezra Pound: the cantos The impact of William Carlos Williams The later poetry of Wallace Stevens Other modernist poets PART 3: Postmodernism The Postwar period: introduction Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop Breaking through the new criticism Robert Lowell In and out of the movement: the generation of the 1950s in England English poetry in the 1960s and 1970s The poetry of Ireland Open form Poetry in New York and San Francisco Against ''Civilization" Sylvia plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich Black poets of America Meditations of the solitary mind: John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons The achievement of James Merrill 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