A History of modernist poetry / edited by Alex Davis, University College Cork, Ireland, Lee M. Jenkins, University College Cork, Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Modernist poetry in history -- Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins -- Part I. 1. Form in modernist poetry -- Fiona Green 2. Myths and texts -- Michael Bell -- 3. Politics and modernist poetry -- Michael Tratner -- 4. Modernist poetry, sexuality, and gender -- Georgia Johnston -- 5. Modernist poetry and race -- Timothy Yu -- 6. Modernist periodicals -- Paige Reynolds -- Part II 7. Decadence and Poetic Modernism -- Vincent Sherry -- 8. Edwardianism, Georgian, Imagist, and Vorticist -- Helen Carr -- 9. Early Eliot, H.D., and Pound -- Miranda Hickman -- 10. Yeats, Modernism, and the Irish Revival -- Gregory Castle -- 11. Modernism and The First World War poetry : alternative lines -- Andrew Palmer and Sally Minogue -- Part III. 12. Gertrude Stein -- Charles Bernstein -- 13. Mina Loy -- Sara Crangle -- 14. Pound and Eliot: The years of l'entre deux guerres -- Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins -- 15. American poetry in the 1910s and 1920s: Stevens, Moore, Williams, and others -- Bart Eeckhout and Glen MacLeod -- 16. American modernism from the 1930s to the 1950s: Williams and Stevens to Black Mountain and The Beats -- Stephen Matterson -- 17. African American modernisms -- Mark Whalan -- 18. Objectivist poets -- Mark Scroggins -- 19. Later Eliot and Pound -- Jason Harding -- 20. War modernism, 1918-1945 -- Adam Piette -- 21. Stony limits: Modernist peripheries --Eric Falci 22. Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial Directions -- Jahan Ramazani -- Coda -- 23. Modernism after modernism -- Anthony Mellors.

"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" --