A companion to twentieth-century poetry Book

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection	7
2	Modernist Poetry and its Precursors	21
3	The Non-modernist Modern	37
4	Poetry and Politics	51
5	Poetry and War	64
6	Poetry and Science	76
7	Poetry and Literary Theory	89
8	Poetry and Gender	101
9	Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century	113
10	Imagism	127
11	The New Negro Renaissance	138
12	Poetry and the New Criticism	153
13	Black Mountain and Projective Verse	168
14	The Beats	183
15	Confessionalism	197
16	The Movement	209
17	Language Poetry	220
18	West Indian Poetry	235
19	African Poetry	249
20	Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent	264
21	Australian Poetry	281
22	New Zealand Poetry	293
23	Canadian Poetry	304
24	Scottish Poetry	318
25	Welsh Poetry	329
26	Irish Poetry to 1966	343
27	Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912-13	359
28	Robert Frost: North of Boston	369
29	T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land	381
30	D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers	392
31	William Carlos Williams: Spring and All	403
32	Wallace Stevens: Harmonium	414
33	Marianne Moore: Observations	427
34	W. B. Yeats: The Tower	437
35	W. H. Auden: Poems	448
36	Elizabeth Bishop: North & South	457
37	Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos	469
38	Robert Lowell: Life Studies	481
39	Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch	491
40	Sylvia Plath: Ariel	500
41	Ted Hughes: Crow	513
42	Seamus Heaney: North	524
43	John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror	536
44	Derek Walcott: Omeros	547
45	Contemporary American Poetry	559
46	Contemporary British Poetry	571
47	Contemporary Irish Poetry	585
48	Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry	596
	Index	610