A HISTORY OF MODERNIST POETRY A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its threepartsconsidersformalandcontextualissues,includingmyth, politics,gender,andrace,whilethesecondandthirdpartsdiscussa widerangeofindividualpoets,includingEzraPound,T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats,MinaLoy,GertrudeStein,WallaceStevens,William CarlosWilliams, andMarianneMoore, as well as keymovements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This bookalsoaddressestheimpactofbothworldwarsonexperimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytising on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection con- cludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of mod- ernisminrecentwritingonbothsidesoftheAtlantic. alex davis is Professor of EnglishatUniversity College Cork, Ireland. Heis theauthor of A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000) and many essays on anglophone poetry from decadence to the present day. He is co-editor, with Lee M. Jenkins, of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (2000) and The Cambridge CompaniontoModernistPoetry(2007)and,withPatriciaCoughlan, ofModernismandIreland:ThePoetryofthe1930s(1995). leem.jenkinsisSeniorLecturerinEnglishatUniversityCollege Cork,Ireland.SheistheauthorofWallaceStevens:RageforOrder (1999), The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression (2004),andTheAmericanLawrence(2015).Shehaspublishedmany articles on American literature, modernism, and Caribbean poetry, and she has contributed chapters to The Black and Green Atlantic (2009),TheCambridgeCompaniontoBritishandIrishWomen’sPoetry (2011),andTheCambridgeCompaniontoPostcolonialPoetry(2015). A HISTORY OF MODERNIST POETRY edited by ALEX DAVIS UniversityCollegeCork,Ireland LEE M. JENKINS UniversityCollegeCork,Ireland 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107038677 ©AlexDavisandLeeM.Jenkins2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData AHistoryofmodernistpoetry/[editedby]AlexDavis,UniversityCollegeCork,Ireland[and] LeeM.Jenkins,UniversityCollegeCork,Ireland. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. pr605.m63h57 2015 821′.9109112–dc23 2014048588 isbn978-1-107-03867-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents List of Contributors page ix Preface xvii Chronology xix SarahHayden Introduction: Modernist Poetry in History 1 AlexDavisandLeeM.Jenkins part i 1. Form in Modernist Poetry 23 FionaGreen 2. Myths and Texts 46 MichaelBell 3. Politics and Modernist Poetry 68 MichaelTratner 4. Modernist Poetry, Sexuality, and Gender 81 GeorgiaJohnston 5. Modernist Poetry and Race 99 TimothyYu 6. Modernist Periodicals 118 PaigeReynolds part ii 7. Decadence and Poetic Modernism 139 VincentSherry v vi Contents 8. Edwardian, Georgian, Imagist, Vorticist, and ‘Amygist’ 157 Poetry HelenCarr 9. Early Eliot, H.D., and Pound 186 MirandaHickman 10. Yeats, Modernism, and the Irish Revival 204 GregoryCastle 11. ModernismandFirstWorldWarPoetry:AlternativeLines 227 AndrewPalmerandSallyMinogue part iii 12. Gertrude Stein 255 CharlesBernstein 13. Mina Loy 275 SaraCrangle 14. Pound and Eliot: The Years of l’entre deux guerres 303 AlexDavisandLeeM.Jenkins 15. American Poetry in the 1910s and 1920s: Stevens, Moore, 324 Williams, and Others BartEeckhoutandGlenMacLeod 16. AmericanModernismfromthe1930stothe1950s:Williams 341 and Stevens to Black Mountain and The Beats StephenMatterson 17. African American Modernisms 359 MarkWhalan 18. Objectivist Poets 381 MarkScroggins 19. Later Eliot and Pound 398 JasonHarding 20. War Modernism, 1918–1945 417 AdamPiette Contents vii 21. Stony Limits: Modernist Peripheries 434 EricFalci 22. Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial Directions 459 JahanRamazani coda 23. Modernism after Modernism 481 AnthonyMellors Guide to Further Reading 503 Index 515