Modernist Quartet

Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost Stevens Pound Eliot--in various historical environments (literary philosophical gender relations the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they simultaneously reflect and shape our understanding of those environments. Frank Lentricchia presents the poems as stories of the poets seeking to sustain a life in noncommercial writing in a culture that is only hospitable for the most part to commercial art.