The modern poets : a critical introduction /
Rosenthal, M. L.(Macha Louis),1917-author.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1960.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Poetry past and present. The widening of sensibility -- Some workings of tradition -- Hopkins, Hardy, and the 'religion of art' -- Yeats and the modern mind. The unconsenting spirit -- A retrospect : the here and the there -- Prophetic Yeats -- Ezra Pound : the poet as hero. Authority -- Mauberley : alienation of the citizen-artist -- Some notes on the Cantos -- T.S. Eliot and the displaced sensibility. 'Damnation on this earth' -- The 'objective correlative' -- The waste land and Four quartets -- Rival idioms : the great generation. Robinson and Frost -- Williams and Stevens --MacDiarmid and Muir -- Moore, Cummings, Sandburg, Jeffers -- New heaven and earth. D.H. Lawrence -- Hart Crane -- Auden and the thirties -- Exquisite chaos : Thomas and others. Dylan Thomas and recent British verse -- Robert Lowell and the poetry of confession -- Poets of the New Academy -- Outside the Academy.