A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry [Paperback]

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction 1
Neil Roberts

PART I Topics and Debates

1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection 7
Hugh Witemeyer

2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors 21
Peter Brooker and Simon Perril

3 The Non-modernist Modern 37
David Goldie

4 Poetry and Politics 51
Reed Way Dasenbrock

5 Poetry and War 64
Matthew Campbell

6 Poetry and Science 76
Tim Armstrong

7 Poetry and Literary Theory 89
Joanne Feit Diehl

8 Poetry and Gender 101
Edward Larrissy

9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century 113
Philip Hobsbaum

PART II Poetic Movements

10 Imagism 127
Jacob Korg

11 The New Negro Renaissance 138
William W. Cook

12 Poetry and the New Criticism 153
Stephen Burt and Jennifer Lewin

13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse 168
John Osborne

14 The Beats 183
John Osborne

15 Confessionalism 197
Lucy Collins

16 The Movement 209
Stephen Regan

17 Language Poetry 220
Simon Perril

PART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English&lÓ#