- 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
- 1. British Poetry in the 1890s: Introduction
- 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
- 7. Transitions and Premises
- 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
- 14. The New Poetry of America
- 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
- 20. Ezra Pound: The Early Career
- Acknowledgments
- Index
A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
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