Table of Contents:
  • Topics and debates. Modernism and the transatlantic connection / Hugh Witemeyer
  • Modernist poetry and its precursors / Peter Brooker, Simon Perril
  • The non-modernist modern / David Goldie
  • Poetry and politics / Reed Way Dasenbrock
  • Poetry and war / Matthew Campbell
  • Poetry and science / Tim Armstrong
  • Poetry and literary theory / Joanne Feit Diehl
  • Poetry and gender / Edward Larrissy
  • Interrupted monologue : alternative poets of the mid-century / Philip Hobsbaum. Poetic movements. Imagism / Jacob Korg
  • The new negro renaissance / William W. Cook
  • Poetry and the new criticism / Stephen Burt, Jennifer Lewin
  • Black Mountain and projective verse / John Osborne
  • The beats / John Osborne
  • Confessionalism / Lucy Collins
  • The movement / Stephen Regan
  • Language poetry / Simon Perril. International and postcolonial poetry in English. West Indian poetry / Victor Chang
  • African poetry / Kwadwo Osei-Nyame
  • Poetry of the Indian subcontinent / Vinay Dharwadker
  • Australian poetry / Livio Dobrez
  • New Zealand poetry / Terry Sturm
  • Canadian poetry / Cynthia Messenger
  • Scottish poetry / Jeffrey Skoblow
  • Welsh poetry / Douglas Houston
  • Irish poetry to 1966 / Alex Davis. Readings. Thomas Hardy : Poems of 1912-13 / Tim Armstrong
  • Robert Frost : North of Boston / Alex Calder
  • T.S. Eliot : The waste land / John Haffenden
  • D.H. Lawrence : Birds, beasts and flowers / David Ellis
  • William Carlos Williams : Spring and all / Lisa M. Steinman
  • Wallace Stevens : Harmonium / Philip Hobsbaum
  • Marianne Moore : Observations / Elizabeth Wilson
  • W.B. Yeats : The tower / Terence Brown
  • W.H. Auden : Poems / Peter McDonald
  • Elizabeth Bishop : North & south / Jonathan Ellis
  • Ezra Pound : The Pisan cantos / A. David Moody
  • Robert Lowell : Life studies / Stephen Matterson
  • Louis MacNeice : The burning perch / Peter McDonald
  • Sylvia Plath : Ariel / Sue Vice
  • Ted Hughes : Crow / Rand Brandes
  • Seamus Heaney : North / Bernard O'Donoghue
  • John Ashbery : Self-portrait in a convex mirror / David Herd
  • Derek Walcott : Omeros / Bruce Woodcock. The contemporary scene. Contemporary American poetry / Roger Gilbert
  • Contemporary British poetry / Sean O'Brien
  • Contemporary Irish poetry / Lucy Collins
  • Contemporary postcolonial poetry / Jahan Ramazani.