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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Neil Roberts, University of Sheffield).

Part I: Topics and Debates.

1. Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection (Hugh Witemeyer, University of New Mexico).

2. Modernist Poetry and its Precursors (Peter Brooker, School of Cultural Studies, Nene College of Further Education).

3. The Non-Modernist Modern (David Goldie, University of Strathclyde).

4. Poetry and Politics (Reed Way Dasenbrock, New Mexico State University).

5. Poetry and War (Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield).

6. Poetry and Science (Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway College).

7. Poetry and Literary Theory (Joanne Feit Diehl, University of California at Davis).

8. Poetry and Gender (Edward Larrissy, University of Leeds).

9. Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-Century (Phillip Hobsbaum, University of Glasgow).

Part II: Poetic Movements:.

10. Imagism (Jacob Korg).

11. The New Negro Renaissance (William W. Cook, Dartmouth College, Hanover).

12. Poetry and the New Criticism (Stephen Burt, Macalester College and Jennifer Lewin, Yale University).

13. Black Mountain and Projective Verse (John Osbourne, University of Hull).

14. The Beats (John Osbourne, University of Hull).

15. Confessionalism(Lucy Collins, University College, Dublin).

16. The Movement (Stephen Regan, Open University).

17. Language Poetry (Simon Perril, Nene College of Higher Education).

Part III: International and Post-Colonial.

18. West Indian Poetry (Victor Chang, University of West Indies).

19. African Poetry (Kwado Osei-Nyame, School of Oriental and African Studies, London).

20. Poetry of the Indian Sub-Continent (Vinay Dharwadker, University of Oklahoma).

21. Australian Poetry (Livio Dobrez, Australian National University).

22. New Zealand Poetry (Terry Sturm, University of Auckland).

23. Canadian Poetry (Cynthia Messenger, Innis College Writing Centre, University of Toronto).

24. Scottish Poetry (Jeffrey Skoblow, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville).

25. Welsh Poetry (Douglas Houston).

26. Irish Poetry to 1966 (Alex Davis, University College, Cork).

Part IV: Readings.

27. Thomas Hardy: Poems 1912-13 (Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway College).

28. Robert Frost: North of Boston (Alex Calder, University of Auckland).

29. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (John Haffenden, University of Sheffield).

30. D.H.Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers (David Ellis, University of Kent).

31. William Carlos Williams: Spring and All (Lisa M. Steinman, Reed College, Portland, Oregon).

32.Marianne Moore: Observations (Elizabeth Wilson, University of Auckland).

33. W.B. Yeats: The Tower (Terence Brown, Trinity College, Dublin).

34. W.H. Auden: Poems (Peter McDonald, Christ Church College, Oxford).

35. Wallace Stevens: Harmonium (Phillip Hobsbaum, University of Glasgow).

36. Elizabeth Bishop: North & South (Jonathan Ellis, University of Hull).

37. Ezra Pound: Pisan Cantos (A.D. Moody, University of York).

38. Robert Lowell: Life Studies (Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin).

39. Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch (Peter McDonald, Christ Church College, Oxford).

40. Sylvia Plath: Ariel (Sue Vice, University of Sheffield).

41. Ted Hughes: Crow (Rand Brandes, Lenoir-Rhyne College).

42. Seamus Heaney: North (Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford).

43. John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (David Herd, University of Kent at Canterbury).

44. Derek Walcott: Omeros (Bruce Woodcock, University of Hull).

Part V: The Contemporary Scene.

45. Contemporary American Poetry (Roger Gilbert, Cornell University).

46. Contemporary British Poetry (Sean O'Brien, Sheffield Hallam University).

47. Contemporary Irish Poetry (Lucy Collins, University College of Dublin).

48. Contemporary Post-Colonial Poetry (Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia).

Index.