Modern American poets.

Table of Contents: “…Segment A: includes Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, Wallace Stevens -- v.2. Segmemt B: includes Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, William Carlos Williams.…”

Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form / Judith Brown. by Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.…”

Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form / Judith Brown. by Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.…”
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Poetry of the possible : spontaneity, modernism, and the multitude / Joel Nickels. by Nickels, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Modernism and spontaneous organization -- Rising from vowhere: self-valorization in William Carlos Williams's poetry -- Wyndham Lewis, constituent power, and collective Life -- "An instantaneous sympathy of communication": Laura Riding and the politics of spontaneity -- Rhapsodies of change: the location of the multitude in Wallace Stevens's poetry -- Conclusion: Beginning again.…”
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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: last looks, last books -- Looking at the worst: Wallace Stevens' The rock -- The contest of melodrama and restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- Images of subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by day -- Caught and freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III -- Self-portraits while dying: James Merrill and A scattering of salts.…”

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism. by Wallace, Rob, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: WRITING IMPROVISATION INTO MODERNISM; CHAPTER 1 EZRA POUND: MUSIC, HISTORY, TIME; CHAPTER 2 LANGSTON HUGHES: "HOW TO TAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE AND MAKE IT DANCE"; CHAPTER 3 LISTENING TO GERTRUDE STEIN'S SAXOPHONE; CHAPTER 4 BANJOS, BLACKBIRDS, AND BLUE GUITARS: THE SOUNDWORLD OF WALLACE STEVENS; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur / edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue. by Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965

Table of Contents: “…Cummings's language -- Examples of Wallace Stevens -- New thresholds, new anatomies -- The method of Marianne Moore -- The later poetry of W.B. …”

Modernism : a short introduction / David Ayers. by Ayers, David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and modernist reading -- 'The waste land', Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy -- Wallace Stevens and romantic legacy -- Wyndham Lewis : genius and art -- James Joyce : Ulysses and love -- D.H. …”

Poetic argument : studies in modern poetry / Jonathan Kertzer. by Kertzer, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- 1 Poetic Argument -- 2 Marianne Moore -- 3 Edward Thomas -- 4 Dylan Thomas -- 5 T.S. Eliot -- 6 Wallace Stevens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y…”
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The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller. by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.…”
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American poetry--the rhetoric of its forms / Mutlu Konuk Blasing. by Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and the archaeology of poetry -- Sylvia Plath's black car of lethe -- Ralph Waldo Emerson : essaying the poet -- Wallace Stevens : the exquisite errors of time -- The re-verses of Elizabeth Bishop -- The coinciding leaves of Walt Whitman -- Ezra Pound's hard currency -- Frank O'Hara : the speech of poetry -- Emily Dickinson's untitled discourse -- Hart Crane : inscribing the sublime -- John Ashbery : parodying the paradox.…”

Poets at play : an anthology of modernist drama / edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole.

Table of Contents: “…Modernist poetic drama: a critical introduction -- Travelers watch a sunrise / Wallace Stevens -- Aria Da Capo: a play in one act / Edna St. …”

101 great American poems / edited by the American Poetry & Literacy Project.

Table of Contents: “…Anne Bradsheet -- Phillis Wheatley -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Sara Teasdale -- Ezra Pound -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. …”

Poets at play : an anthology of modernist drama / edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole.

Table of Contents: “…Modernist poetic drama: a critical introduction -- Three travelers watch a sunrise / Wallace Stevens -- Aria da Capo: a play in one act / Edna St. …”
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Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- George Herbert -- Andrew Marvell -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- William Butler Yeats -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Jean Toomer -- Langston Hughes -- Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath -- Frank O'Hara -- Paul Blackburn -- May Swenson -- Gary Snyder -- Norman H. …”

Modernism : A Short Introduction. by Ayers, David

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and Modernist Reading -- 3 'The Waste Land', Nancy Cunard and Mina Loy -- 4 Wallace Stevens and Romantic Legacy -- 5 Wyndham Lewis: Genius and Art -- 6 James Joyce: Ulysses and Love -- 7 D. …”
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Dear editor : a history of Poetry in letters : the first fifty years, 1912-1962 / edited and compiled by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young ; introductions and commentary by Joseph Parisi ; foreword by Billy Collins.

Table of Contents: “…Beginning again -- The view from Cass Street -- The view from Church Walk -- The editor and the impresario at odds -- Recognition and romance -- American modernism : William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and others -- Poetry on the ascendant, Pound in decline -- Departures, 1916-1919 -- World War I and the aftermath -- Another new generation, 1918-1922 -- The twenties -- The depression years, 1930-1936 -- Passing the torch, 1936-1941 -- World War II -- Period of adjustments, 1944-1949 -- Karl Shapiro : 1950-1955 -- Henry Rago : the early years, 1955-1962.…”

Modern American poetry, 1865-1950 / Alan Shucard, Fred Moramarco, William Sullivan. by Shucard, Alan, 1935-2018

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and Ezra Pound -- A world of ideas, a world of things : Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams -- "The visionary company" : Hart Crane, E. …”

Modernism and the ordinary / Liesl Olson. by Olson, Liesl

Table of Contents: “…Habit : "the enormous fly-wheel of society" -- "Suspended in time" -- A "perfectly ordinary couple living an ordinary life" -- Wallace Stevens's commonplace. The normal poet -- "An ordinary evening in New Haven" -- Conclusion. …”
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Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 -- William Shakespeare, The Ghost's speech -- John Donne, "The flea" -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet I -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV -- George Herbert, "Church-monuments" -- George Herbert, "The quip" -- George Herbert, "Love" -- Andrew Marvell, "To his coy mistress" -- William Blake, "The chimney sweeper" -- William Blake, "London" -- William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us" -- William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" -- Walt Whitman, Song of myself -- Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for death" -- Emily Dickinson, "Safe in their alabaster chambers" -- Emily Dickinson, "The soul selects her own society" -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" -- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the swan" -- Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of ten o'clock" -- Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the jar" -- William Carlos Williams, "The red wheelbarrow" -- William Carlos Williams, "This is just to say" -- Jean Toomer, "Georgia dusk" -- Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia" -- Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings" -- Theodore Roethke, "Root cellar" -- Theodore Roethke, "The visitant" -- Robert Lowell, "Man and wife" -- Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" -- Frank O'Hara, "A Mexican guitar" -- Paul Blackburn, "The once-over" -- May Swenson, "At East River" -- Gary Snyder, "Old pond" -- Norman H. …”
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