Contents
Introduction “Something We Have That They Don’t” by Steve Clark & Mark Ford
“Why Should Men’s Heads Ache?”: Yeats and American Modernism by Edna Longley
“A Package Deal”: The Descent of Modernism by Stan Smith
Writing “Without Roots”: Auden, Eliot, and Post-national Poetry by Nicholas Jenkins
“A Whole Climate of Opinion”: Auden’s Influence on Bishop by Bonnie Costello
The American Poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill by Langdon Hammer
The White Room in the New York Schoolhouse by Tony Lopez
“Rebellion That Honors the Liturgies”: Robert Lowell and Michael Hofmann by Stephen Burt
Authority, Marginality, England, and Ireland in the Work of Susan Howe by Alan Golding
“The Circulation of Small Largenesses”: Mark Ford and John Ashbery by Helen Vendler
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index