Reading modernist poetry /
Whitworth, Michael H.
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness -- Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation.
English poetry
American poetry
Reader-response criticism.
Poetry
Modernism (Literature)