A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

Part One: Poetry Around the Turn of the Century
- 1. British Poetry in the 1890s: Introduction
  - The Romantic Legacy
  - British Modes and Poets of the Decade
  - The Literary Milieu
- 2. The Victorian Tradition and the Celtic Twilight
  - Sir William Watson
  - Stephen Phillips and “Michael Field”
  - Alice Meynell
  - Francis Thompson
  - The Celtic Twilight
  - Yeats
  - William Sharp
- 3. Ars Victrix: The London Avant-Garde
  - Character of the Avant-Garde
  - L’Art pour l’art
  - Ernest Dowson
  - Lionel Johnson
  - The Decadence
  - Wratislaw
  - Barlas
  - Wilde’s Salome
  - Symbolism
  - Yeats
  - Symons’ The Symbolist Movement in Literature
  - Impressionism and Arthur Symons
  - Pater
- 4. The Narrative Protest
  - Reactions Against the Poetry of Ars Victrix
  - Narrative Poets
  - Rudyard Kipling
  - John Davidson
  - Chesterton
  - Noyes
  - Masefield
- 5. The American Milieu, 1890–1912
  - The Isolation of American Poets
  - Poetic Innocence
  - Preoccupation with England
  - The Recoil from Contemporary America
  - The Poetry Market
- 6. The Beginnings of the Modern Movement in America
  - The Genteel Tradition
  - Santayana
  - Stickney
  - Lodge
  - Moody
  - Reese
  - Tabb
  - Reactions Against the Genteel Mode
  - The Vagabond Theme
  - Hovey and Carman
  - Edwin Markham: Poetry of Social Protest
  - Popular Entertainers and Newspaper Poets
  - Riley
  - Field
  - Crawford
  - Stephen Crane
  - Edwin Arlington Robinson
Part Two: Poetry in Rapport With a Public
- 7. Transitions and Premises
  - The Dominant Mode
  - Poets and Schools
- 8. Thomas Hardy
  - His Life
  - General Character of His Poetry
  - Style and Form
  - Tentative and Opposed Responses
  - The Philosophical Pessimist
  - The Sense of Vista
  - A Poet of Nature
  - The Dynasts
  - His Influence on Later Poets
- 9. Craftsmen of the Beautiful and the Agreeable
  - General Characteristics of the Mode
  - Robert Bridges
  - Laurence Binyon
  - Sturge Moore
  - Walter de la Mare
  - Trevelyan, Hewlett, Belloc, and Flecker
  - Abercrombie and Bottomley
  - A. E. Housman
- 10. The Georgian Poets
  - The Georgian Anthologies
  - Rupert Brooke
  - Georgian Realism
  - Gibson
  - The Georgian Countryside
  - Edward Thomas
  - W. H. Davies
  - Edmund Blunden
  - Ralph Hodgson
  - W. J. Turner
  - The Georgian Compromise
- 11. Robert Frost
  - His Life
  - Frost and the Age
  - The Spoken Language
  - Dramatic Characterization
  - Poetry in the Familiar
  - Narrative Elements
  - The Personality of the Speaker
  - Unsaying the Romantics
  - Frostian Irony
- 12. The Irish Scene
  - The Irish Milieu
  - Patriotic Verse
  - George Russell
  - Reaction Against the Celtic Twilight
  - James Stephens
  - Synge
  - The Folk Movement
  - Colum, Campbell, and F. R. Higgins
- 13. Poetry of World War I
  - American Poets and the War
  - English Poets: The First Phase
  - Graves
  - Blunden
  - The Later Phase
  - Sassoon
  - Owen
  - Rosenberg
Part Three: Popular Modernism
- 14. The New Poetry of America
  - Phases of the Modern Movement
  - The Reaction against the Genteel Mode
  - The Widening of Subject Matter
  - The Proliferation of Formal Experiment
  - The Spoken Language
  - Discontinuous Composition
  - Free Verse
  - The New Audience and Publishers
  - Little Magazines
  - The Contemporary Perception of Groups and Movements
- 15. Imagism
  - The Imagist Movement
  - The Imagist Doctrine
  - The Imagist Poem
  - Aldington
  - H.D. Fletcher
  - Amy Lowell
  - Sir Herbert Read
- 16. Poetry for a Democracy
  - Vachel Lindsay
  - Edgar Lee Masters
  - Carl Sandburg
  - John V. A. Weaver
  - Lola Ridge
- 17. Conservative and Regional Poets of America
  - Sara Teasdale
  - Ridgeley Torrence
  - Donald Evans
  - Adelaide Crapsey
  - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  - Elinor Wylie
  - Robert Hillyer
  - Conrad Aiken
  - The Benéts
  - Regional Poetry
- 18. Black Poets of America: The First Phase
  - Types and History of Black Poetry
  - Poets of the Turn of the Century
  - Paul Lawrence Dunbar
  - W. S. Braithwaite
  - Fenton Johnson
  - Claude McKay
  - Jean Toomer
  - Countie Cullen
  - Langston Hughes
  - James Weldon Johnson
  - Sterling Brown
- 19. British Poetry After the War, 1918–1928
  - Modernist and Traditional Modes
  - Beginnings of the New Criticism
  - Richard Church
  - A. E. Coppard
  - Andrew Young
  - Robert Graves
  - Wheels
  - Edith Sitwell
  - Aldous Huxley
  - Harold Monro
  - Edgell Rickword
  - D. H. Lawrence
Part Four: The Beginnings of the High Modernist Mode
- 20. Ezra Pound: The Early Career
  - The High Modernist Mode
  - Pound before Imagism
  - Pound’s Modernization: The First Phase
  - Ford Maddox Hueffer
  - T. E. Hulme
  - Efficient Style
  - Fenollosa’s “Essay on the Chinese Written Character”
  - Vorticism
  - i>Cathay. Lustra
  - Homage to Sextus Propertius
  - Pound’s Modernization: The Second Phase
  - The Ur Cantos
  - Eliot and Joyce
  - The Fourth Canto
  - Douglas and the Economic System
  - “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
  - The Cantos
  - Later Life
- 21. T. S. Eliot: The Early Career
  - Early Life
  - The Encounter with Laforgue
  - England and Marriage
  - A Growing Reputation
  - The Waste Land
  - The Urban Setting
  - Leitmotifs
  - The “Mythical Method”
  - Allusion
  - The Condition of Man
  - Eliot’s Criticism
  - Later Life
- 22. The New York Avant-Garde: Stevens and Williams to the Early 1920s and Marianne Moore
  - Others
  - Alfred Kreymborg
  - Stieglitz
  - The Armory Show
  - A Compressed Idiom
  - Mina Loy
  - Maxwell Bodenheim
  - Wallace Stevens
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Marianne Moore
- 23. William Butler Yeats
  - Early Life
  - His Father
  - Occult Lore
  - Symbolism and Reverie
  - Irish Nationalism
  - Maud Gonne
  - The Rhymers’ Club
  - Remaking a Self, 1899–1914
  - The Abbey Theatre
  - A New Level of Achievement, 1914–1928
  - Ezra Pound and Noh Drama
  - A Vision
  - A System of Symbols
  - Yeatsian Talk
  - Thinking in Antitheses
  - Yeats’s Last Decade
  - Yeats and the Modern Movements in Poetry
Acknowledgments
Index

David Perkins

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