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This is the first of two volumes presenting the history of English and American poetry in the twentieth century. It covers the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. The second volume, From the 1920s to the Present, will complete the history. The volumes divide in the mid-twenties because by this time what I have called the high Modernist mode was established and major ...
This is the second of two volumes that together unfold the history of modern poetry from the 1890s to the present. The first volume ended in the mid-1920s. By this time major works of high Modernist poetry had been published-T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925), Wallace Stevens’ Harmanium (1923), D.H. Lawrence’s Birds, Beasts, and Flowers (1923)-and the critical hegemony of Eliot, which was to last for another ...