The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Modernist poems are among the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, yet they are sometimes challenging to read. This comprehensive introduction demonstrates why modernists believed difficulty and confusion were necessary for poetry in the modern world by walking readers through some of modernism's most well-known poems as well as some of its overlooked high points. The American modernists, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and other authors are covered in-depth chapters that show how formal experiments respond to the modern world of mass media, democracies, total war, and shifting religious beliefs.