Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork. Lee M. Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork.

• Chronology; Introduction Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins; Part I. Contexts: 1. Modernist poetry in history David Ayers; 2. Schools, movements and manifestoes Paul Peppis; 3. The poetics of modernism Peter Nicholls; 4. Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem Christanne Miller; Part II. Authors and Alliances: 5. Pound or Eliot: whose era? Lawrence Rainey; 6. HD and revisionary mythmaking Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 7. Yeats, Ireland, modernism Anne Fogarty; 8. Modernist poetry in the British Isles Drew Milne; 9. US modernism I. Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric Bonnie Costello; 10. US modernism II. The other tradition: Williams, Zukofsky, Olson Mark Scroggins; 11. The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance Sharon L. Jones; 12. Caliban's modernity: postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean Jahan Ramazani; Part III. Receptions: 13. Modernist poetry and the canon Jason Harding; Guide to further reading; Index.

'As an introductory text to modernist poetry this companion would be a welcome addition to any university library serving English or American literature departments.' Reference Reviews