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the cambridge companion to modernist poetry ThisCompanionoffersthemostcomprehensiveoverviewavailableofmodernist poetry,itsforms,itsmajorauthorsanditscontexts.Thefirstpartexploresthe historicalandculturalcontextsandsexualpoliticsofliterarymodernismandthe avantgarde.Thechaptersinthesecondpartconcentrateonindividualauthors andmovements,whiletheconcludingpartoffersacomprehensiveoverviewof the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well asinsightfulreadingsofcanonicalpoets,theCompanionfeaturesextendeddis- cussionsofpoetswhoseimportanceisnowbeingincreasinglyrecognised,such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, British modernists and post- colonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are oftenthoughtofasdifficult,theseessayswillhelpstudentstounderstandand appreciatetheirexperimentalandcreativeresponsestocontemporarysocialand culturalchange. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY EDITED BY ALEX DAVIS UniversityCollegeCork AND LEE M. JENKINS UniversityCollegeCork Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521618151 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2007 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 CONTENTS Notesoncontributors page vii Acknowledgements xi Chronology xii 1 Introduction alex davis and lee m. jenkins part i contexts 1 Modernistpoetryinhistory 11 david ayers 2 Schools,movements,manifestoes 28 paul peppis 3 Thepoeticsofmodernism 51 peter nicholls 4 Gender,sexualityandthemodernistpoem 68 cristanne miller part ii authors and alliances 5 PoundorEliot:whoseera? 87 lawrence rainey 6 H.D.andrevisionarymyth-making 114 rachel blau duplessis 7 Yeats,Irelandandmodernism 126 anne fogarty v Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 contents 8 ModernistpoetryintheBritishIsles 147 drew milne 9 USmodernismI:Moore,Stevensandthemodernistlyric 163 bonnie costello 10 USmodernismII:theothertradition–Williams,Zukofsky 181 andOlson mark scroggins 11 ThepoetryoftheHarlemRenaissance 195 sharon lynette jones 12 Caliban’smodernity:postcolonialpoetryofAfrica,SouthAsiaand 207 theCaribbean jahan ramazani part iii receptions 13 Modernistpoetryandthecanon 225 jason harding 244 Guidetofurtherreading 251 Index vi Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 CONTRIBUTORS davidayersisReaderinModernismandCriticalTheoryintheSchoolofEnglishat theUniversityofKent.HispublicationsincludeWyndhamLewisandWesternMan (1992),EnglishLiteratureofthe1920s(1999),Modernism:AShortIntroduction (2004)andLiteraryTheory:AReintroduction(2007). bonniecostelloisProfessorofEnglishatBostonUniversityandtheauthorofmany studies on modern and contemporary poetry, including, most recently, Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (2003). Her new book,PlanetsonTables:Poetry,StillLifeandtheTurningWorld,willbepublished byCornellUniversityPressin2007. alexdavisisSeniorLecturerinModernEnglishatUniversityCollegeCork.Heis the author of A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000) and co-author of Irish Studies: The Essential Glossary (2003). He has co-edited two collections of essays on modernist poetry: with Lee M. Jenkins, Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (2000) and, with Patricia Coughlan, Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry ofthe1930s(1995). rachelblauduplessis,ProfessoratTempleUniversity,isanAmericanpoet-critic. Her critical writing includes Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (2006) and Genders, Races, and ReligiousCulturesinModernAmericanPoetry,1908–1934(2001).Earlierwork includes Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century WomenWriters(1985)andH.D.:TheCareerofthatStruggle(1986),aswellas aneditionofTheSelectedLettersofGeorgeOppen(1990).DuPlessis’songoing longpoemprojectisDrafts(2001,2004,2007). annefogartyisProfessorofJamesJoyceStudiesatUniversityCollegeDublinand Director of the UCD Research Centre for James Joyce Studies. She is editor of the Irish University Review and President-elect of the International James Joyce Foundation.ShehaslecturedandpublishedwidelyonaspectsofIrishmodernism vii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 notes on contributors and on twentieth-century Irish women’s writing. She is co-editor, with Timothy Martin,ofJoyceontheThreshold(2005)andiscurrentlycompletingamonograph entitledJamesJoyceandCulturalMemory:ReadingHistoryinUlysses. jasonhardingisLecturerinEnglishStudiesattheUniversityofDurham.Heisthe authorofThe‘Criterion’:CulturalPoliticsandPeriodicalNetworksinInter-War Britain (2002) and a co-editor of the collection of critical essays T. S. Eliot and theConceptofTradition(2007).HeiscurrentlyresearchingabookonColdWar culturalpoliticsandeditingavolumeintheFaberCollectedProseofT.S.Eliot. leemargaretjenkinsis Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork.ShehaspublishedwidelyonAmericanandAfrican-Americanliteratureand modernpoetryandistheauthorofWallaceStevens:RageforOrder(1999)and The Language of Caribbean Poetry (2004). With Alex Davis, she is the editor of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and Ameri- canModernistPoetry(2000).SheiscurrentlyresearchingamonographonD.H. LawrenceandAmerica. sharonlynettejonesisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatWrightStateUniversity inOhio.SheistheauthorofRereadingtheHarlemRenaissance:Race,Class,and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (2002) and co-editor, with Rochelle Smith, of The Prentice Hall Anthology of AfricanAmericanLiterature(2000).Shehasalsocontributedarticlestojournals suchasLangstonHughesReviewandSocialAlternatives. cristannemilleris Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature and Chair of the EnglishDepartmentatUniversityatBuffalo,SUNY.HerpublicationsincludeCul- tures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schuler (2005), MarianneMoore:QuestionsofAuthority(1996),andsheisaco-editorwithBon- nie Costello and Celeste Goodridge of the Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (1997).ShehasalsowrittenextensivelyonEmilyDickinsonandotherUSpoets. drewmilneis the Judith E. Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. His critical publications include Modern Cri- ticalThought:AnAnthologyofTheoristsWritingonTheorists(2003).Hisbooks ofpoetryincludeBenchMarks(1998),MarsDisarmed(2001),TheDamage:New andSelectedPoems(2002)andGoFigure(2003). peternichollsis Professor of English and American Literature at the University ofSussex.HispublicationsincludeEzraPound:Politics,EconomicsandWriting (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995), and many articles and essays on literatureandtheory.Herecentlyco-edited,withLauraMarcus,TheCambridge HistoryofTwentieth-CenturyEnglishLiterature(2005)andhisGeorgeOppenand theFateofModernismwillbepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2007.Heis viii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 notes on contributors editorofthejournalTextualPracticeandco-directoroftheCentreforModernist StudiesatSussex. paulpeppisisAssociateProfessorofEnglishLiteratureandCultureattheUniversity ofOregon.HeistheauthorofLiterature,Politics,andtheEnglishAvant-Garde: Nation and Empire 1901–1918 (2000) and has published articles on a range of twentieth-centuryauthors,includingE.M.Forster,FordMadoxFord,Wyndham Lewis,MinaLoyandGertrudeStein.Heiscurrentlyatworkonabookentitled SciencesofModernism:Sexology,Psychology,andAnthropology. lawrenceraineyis Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. He isthefoundingeditorofthejournalModernism/Modernity,andhismostrecent books on T. S. Eliot – Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (2005) and The Annotated WasteLandwithEliot’sContemporaryProse(2005)–werejointlyawardedthe 2006 Robert Motherwell Book Prize for the best contribution to the study of modernism. jahanramazaniisEdgarF.ShannonProfessorofEnglishandDepartmentChairat theUniversityofVirginia.HeistheauthorofYeatsandthePoetryofDeath:Elegy, Self-Elegy,andtheSublime(1990),PoetryofMourning:TheModernElegyfrom Hardy to Heaney (1994) and The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001).Heco-editedthethirdeditionofTheNortonAnthologyofModernand ContemporaryPoetry(2003)andtheeightheditionofTheTwentiethCenturyand AfterinTheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature(2006). markscrogginsis Associate Professor in the Department of English at Florida AtlanticUniversity.HeistheauthorofLouisZukofskyandthePoetryofKnow- ledge(1998),Anarchy(poems,2003),ThePoemofaLife:ABiographyofLouis Zukofsky(2007)andeditorofUpperLimitMusic:TheWritingofLouisZukofsky (1997). ix Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007
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