Table of Contents:
  • "Why should men's heads ache?" Yeats and American modernism / Edna Longley
  • "A package deal": The descent of modernism / Stan Smith
  • Writing "Without roots": Auden, Eliot, and post-national poetry / Nicholas Jenkins
  • "A whole climate of opinion": Auden's influence on Bishop / Bonnie Costello
  • The American poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill / Langdon Hammer
  • The White Room in the New York schoolhouse / Tony Lopez
  • "Rebellion that honors the liturgies": Robert Lowell and Michael Hoffman / Stephen Burt
  • Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe / Alan Golding
  • "The circulation of small largeness": Mark Ford and John Ashbery / Helen Vendler.