A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

1. Form in modernist poetry Fiona Green; 2. Myths and texts Michael Bell; 3. Politics and modernist poetry Michael Tratner; 4. Modernist poetry, sexuality, and gender Georgia Johnston; 5. Modernist poetry and race Timothy Yu; 6. Modernist magazines Paige Reynolds; 7. Modernism and decadence Vincent Sherry; 8. Edwardianism, Georgianism, Imagism, and Vorticism Helen Carr; 9. Early Eliot, Pound, and H. D. Miranda Hickman; 10. Yeats, modernism, and the Irish revival Gregory Castle; 11. The First World War and modernist poetry Andrew Palmer and Sally Minogue; 12. Gertrude Stein Charles Bernstein; 13. Mina Loy Sara Crangle; 14. Pound and Eliot: the years of l'entre deux guerres Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins; 15. American poetry in the 1910s and '20s: Stevens, Moore, Williams, and others Bart Eeckhout and Glen MacLeod; 16. American modernism from the 1930s to the '50s: Williams and Stevens to Black Mountain and the Beats Stephen Matterson; 17. African American modernism Mark Whalan; 18. Objectivist poets Mark Scroggins; 19. Later Eliot and Pound Jason Harding; 20. War modernism, 1918-45 Adam Piette; 21. Modernist peripheries: stony limits Eric Falci; 22. Postcolonial modernisms Jahan Ramazani; 23. Modernism after modernism Anthony Mellors.