Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer inTwentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of MertonCollege, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake:Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) andVirginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters onmodernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide toCriticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review ofEnglish Studies.

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

Preface and Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction.
Part I Subject Matter.
2 Reflexivity.
3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.
4 Explorations of Consciousness.
Part II Techniques.
5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.
6 The Sound of the Poem.
7 Allusion and Quotation.
8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.
9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.
10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.
11 Who is Speaking?
Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.
12 Form.
13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.
14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.
15 The Dramatic Monologue.
16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.
17 Modernist Endings.
18 Value and Evaluation.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
Index.