A History of Modernist Poetry [Hardcover]

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. It 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.A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. It 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.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.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 magazines Paige Reynolds; 7. Modernism and decadence Vincent Sherry; 8. Edwardianism, Georgianism, Imagism, and Vorticism Helen Carr; 9. Early Eliot, Pound, and H. D. Miranda Hickman; 10. Yeats, modernism, and the Irish revival Gregory Castle; 11. The First Worló¼