The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After

List of Abbreviations.

1 Introduction: The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: An Overview.

2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams.

3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism’s War on Rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore.

4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes.

5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden.

6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses.

Notes.

Works Cited.

Further Reading.

Index