A companion to modernist poetry / edited by David E. Chinitz; Gail McDonald ; cover design by Richard Boxall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chinitz, David, editor.

McDonald, Gail, editor.

Boxal, Richard, cover designer.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture.

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

A Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and cultural context that has been especially fruitful in recent scholarship. The second section focuses on various movements and groupings of poets, placing writers in literary history and indicating the currents and countercurrents whose interaction generated the category of modernism as it is now broadly conceived. The third section traces the arcs of twenty-one poets careers, illustrated by readings of key works. The companion thus offers breadth in its presentation of historical and literary contexts and depth in its attention to individual poets; it brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important and who are likely to appear on syllabi and to attract critical interest for many years to come. Edited by two highly respected and notable critics in the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry boasts a varied list of contributors who have produced an intense, focused study of modernist poetry.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1: Rhythm, Form, and Diction in Modernist Poetry

Breaking the Pentameter, and Other Myths

Modern Metrical Practices

Reading Modern Rhythms

"Inane phraseology"

Modernity and the Inexplicable

References and Further Reading

Part I: Influences and Institutions

2: Urbanism

3: The Visual Arts

Shared Functions

Shared Techniques

4: Music

5: Fiction

6: Science and Technology

7: Popular Culture

8: Religion: Orthodoxies and Alternatives

9: Politics

Language

Social Practice

Culture

10: War and Empire

Yeats and the Celtic Alternative

Pound and the Roman Precedent

Eliot and the Contemporary Moment

11: Psychology and Sexuality

The New Matrix of Psychology and Sexuality

"Do I dare to eat a peach?": Sexuality and Literature

Sex Leaves the Private Sphere

Freud and the New Psychology

Modernist Literary Psychologies

12: Symbolism and Decadence

13: The European Avant-Garde

Symbolism and After

Futurism and Cubo-Futurism

Expressionism and Dadaism

Surrealism

14: Little Magazines

The Little Magazine and the Making of New Artistic Forms

Definitions

Places for Poetry

1910s: New Forms, Modern Themes

1920s: Consolidating Modernist Aesthetics

1930s: Reaffirming Political Commitments

1940s: Modernist Poetry Enters the University.

New Technologies and New Genres

15: Modernist Criticism

Varieties of Modernist Criticism

Metacriticism and Tradition

Pound, Imagism, Lawrence, and the Question of Free Verse

Eliot: Impersonality and Transmutation

Modernist Criticism in the Academy

Modernist Dissensions and Romantic Debts

Part II: Groups and Groupings

16: The Georgian Poets and the Genteel Tradition

The "Genteel Tradition"

"Georgian" Poetry

17: The New Poetry

The Door Opens

A Poetics of Modernity

18: Poetry of the Great War

19: The Harlem Renaissance

20: The Fugitives

21: Modernist Women Poets

22: Left Poetry

23: Objectivism

24: World Modernist Poetry in English

25: Modernism: The Next Generation

Part III: Poets

26: Thomas Hardy

Language and Modernity

Abstraction and Incompleteness

Human Shows and Modernism

27: W. B. Yeats

References

28: Gertrude Stein

29: Robert Frost

Among the Modernists

Language and Sound

Skepticism and Metaphysics

30: Wallace Stevens

Harmonium (1923/1931)

Ideas of Order (1935/1936)

The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems (1937)

Parts of a World

Transport to Summer

The Auroras of Autumn

The Rock (1954) and Opus Posthumous (1957)

31: Mina Loy

References and Further Reading.

32: William Carlos Williams

33: D. H. Lawrence

34: Ezra Pound

"The Serious Artist"

"A poem including history"

"I cannot make it cohere"

35: H.D.

36: Marianne Moore

37: T. S. Eliot

"Prufrock"

The Waste Land

Ash-Wednesday

Four Quartets

38: Claude McKay

39: Edna St. Vincent Millay

40: Hugh MacDiarmid

Early Scots Lyrics and A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Late Poetry in English

41: E. E. Cummings

42: David Jones

In Parenthesis

The Anathemata

The Sleeping Lord

43: Melvin Tolson

44: Hart Crane

Reading Crane

Major Works

Crane's Influences

Crane and Modernism

Crane's Impact

45: Langston Hughes

Jazzonia: The 1920s

Too Much of Race: The 1930s

A Dream Deferred: The 1940s and 1950s

Hard Words: The 1960s

46: W. H. Auden

Being Absolutely Modern

Learning to Be Indifferent

Thinking No Thought But Ours

Conclusion: Modernist Poetry Today

47: Contemporary Critical Trends

Orientation

Tactics

Literal Reading

Differential Reading

Radical Reading

Distant Reading

Strategies

The Commitment to Form

Social Philology and Sound

Constructivist and Cultural Poetics

Summation

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

Other Format:

9780470659816

ISBN:

11118604415

1118604423

111860444X

OCLC:

876512949