Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Elisa (Lisa) New is a professor of English at Harvard, with specialities ...

Austin, Mary. The American Rhythm. 1923. New and enlarged ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Bell, Michael. “Myths and Texts.” A History of Modernist Poetry, edited by ...

Hugh Kenner, the quintessential expert on 20th century English-language literature who was equally at ease excoriating encyclopedias or explaining how Ezra Pound and James Joyce founded modernist ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. In her 2003 Paris Review interview, Jorie Graham evokes a radiant image from her childhood in Rome: a “huge marble ...

This semester, I took English 510 (British and Irish Modernist poets) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Prior to this I'd had little respect for poetry... it seemed like fluff, not "real ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

At a rare moment of rhetorical uncertainty in his now classic Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson acknowledges a source of challenge to the modern/postmodern ...

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate and inform, here is a list of 10 of the best and most influential living Black poets. Furthermore, we’ve included the title of some of the most famous work ...