Acknowledgements |
Notes on Contributors |
IntroductionNeil Roberts |
Part I Topics and Debates |
1 Modernism and the Transatlantic ConnectionHugh Witemeyer |
2 Modernist Poetry and its PrecursorsPeter Brooker |
3 The Non-Modernist ModernDavid Goldie |
4 Poetry and PoliticsReed Way Dasenbrock |
5 Poetry and WarMatthew Campbell |
6 Poetry and ScienceTim Armstrong |
7 Poetry and Literary TheoryJoanne Feit Diehl |
8 Poetry and GenderEdward Larrissy |
9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-CenturyPhillip Hobsbaum |
Part II Poetic Movements |
10 ImagismJacob Korg) |
11 The New Negro RenaissanceWilliam W. Cook |
12 Poetry and the New CriticismStephen Burt |
13 Black Mountain and Projective VerseJohn Osbourne |
14 The BeatsJohn Osbourne |
15 ConfessionalismLucy Collins |
16 The MovementStephen Regan |
17 Language PoetrySimon Perril |
Part III International and Post-Colonial |
18 West Indian PoetryVictor Chang |
19 African PoetryKwado Osei-Nyame |
20 Poetry of the Indian Sub-ContinentVinay Dharwadker |
21 Australian PoetryLivio Dobrez |
22 New Zealand PoetryTerry Sturm |
23 Canadian PoetryCynthia Messenger |
24 Scottish PoetryJeffrey Skoblow |
25 Welsh PoetryDouglas Houston |
26 Irish Poetry to 1966Alex Davis |
Part IV Readings |
27 Thomas Hardy: Poems 1912-13Tim Armstrong |
28 Robert Frost: North of BostonAlex Calder |
29 T.S. Eliot: The WasteL. John Haffenden |
30 D.H.Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and FlowersDavid Ellis |
31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and AllLisa M. Steinman |
32 Marianne Moore: ObservationsElizabeth Wilson |
33 W.B. Yeats: The TowerTerence Brown |
34 W.H. Auden: PoemsPeter McDonald |
35 Wallace Stevens: HarmoniumPhillip Hobsbaum |
36 Elizabeth Bishop: North & SouthJonathan Ellis |
37 Ezra Pound: Pisan CantosA.D. Moody |
38 Robert Lowell: Life StudiesStephen Matterson |
39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning PerchPeter McDonald |
40 Sylvia Plath: ArielSue Vice |
41 Ted Hughes: CrowRand Brandes |
42 Seamus Heaney: NorthBernard O'Donoghue |
43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorDavid Herd |
44 Derek Walcott: OmerosBruce Woodcock |
Part V The Contemporary Scene |
45 Contemporary American PoetryRoger Gilbert |
46 Contemporary British PoetrySean O'Brien |
47 Contemporary Irish PoetryLucy Collins |
48 Contemporary Post-Colonial PoetryJahan Ramazani |
Index |