This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.
A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. * Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others * Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion * Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry * Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors * Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.
A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.