Table of Contents:
  • The art of twentieth-century American poetry: an overview
  • The new realism in modernist poetry: Pound and Williams
  • The doctrine of impersonality and modernism's war on rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore
  • How modernist poetics failed and efforts at renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes
  • The return of rhetoric in modernist poetry: Stevens and Auden
  • Modernist dilemmas and early post-modernist responses.