A History of Modernist Poetry

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.