American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal

A Collection Of Specially Commissioned Essays In Which Leading Scholars And Critics Define The American Modernist Canon. Tracing Its Origins Back To Walt Whitman, This Radical Poetry Is Inspired By The Concept Of Democracy And Extends Across American From East To West. 1. Introduction / Clive Bloom -- 2. H.d. (hilda Doolittle) / David Seed -- 3. Ezra Pound / Ian F.a. Bell -- 4. Hart Crane / Gregory Woods -- 5. William Carlos Williams / Alistair Wisker -- 6. Wallace Stevens / Pat Righelato -- 7. Kenneth Rexroth / Thomas Evans -- 8. Marianne Moore / Lorrayne Carroll -- 9. E.e. Cummings / Brian Docherty -- 10. Objectivism / Richard Bradbury -- 11. Frank O'hara / Eric Mottram -- 12. Charles Olson / Gavin Selerie -- 13. Allen Ginsberg / Brian Docherty -- 14. Edward Dorn / Geoff Ward -- 15. Robert Creeley / Alistair Wisker -- 16. Denise Levertov / Nancy K. Gish. Edited By Clive Bloom And Brian Docherty. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.