This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
'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



Book Information
ISBN 9780521618151
Author Alex Davis
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm * 17mm