Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A new century: from the genteel poets to Robinson and Frost -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Robert Frost -- Chapter 2 Modernist expatriates: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound and the modernist image -- T. S. Eliot and the wasteland of modernity -- Chapter 3 Lyric modernism: Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane -- Wallace Stevens and the supreme fiction -- Hart Crane and the logic of metaphor -- Chapter 4 Gendered modernism -- Edna St. Vincent Millay and the feminist lyric -- Amy Lowell and Imagism -- H. D.'s revisionist mythmaking -- Marianne Moore and the poetics of gendered modernism -- Chapter 5 William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene -- William Carlos Williams -- E. E. Cummings and Robinson Jeffers in the 1920s -- Objectivism in the 1930s -- Paterson and Williams' later poetry -- Chapter 6 From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts movement -- The "New Negro" and African American poetry -- The Harlem Renaissance -- Women poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- The middle generation: Tolson, Hayden, and Brooks -- The Black Arts movement -- Chapter 7 The New Criticism and poetic formalism -- John Crowe Ransom -- Allen Tate -- The New Criticism and postwar poetry -- The New Formalism -- Chapter 8 The confessional moment -- Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath -- Anne Sexton -- John Berryman -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Chapter 9 Lyric as meditation -- Eliot's Four Quartets -- Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" -- Deep Image: Robert Bly and James Wright -- Gary Snyder and Galway Kinnell -- Chapter 10 The New American Poetry and the postmodern avant-garde -- The Beat Generation -- Robert Duncan and the San Francisco Renaissance -- The Black Mountain poets -- The New York school -- Language Poetry and the postmodern avant-garde.