This collection of specially commissioned essays brings together leading scholars and critics to define the American modernist canon. Contents: Notes on the Contributors - Perface and Acknowledgements, Introduction - Clive Bloom, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) - David Seed, Ezra Pound - Ian F.A. Bell, Hart Crane - Gregory Woods, William Carlos Williams - Alistair Wisker, Wallace Stevens - Pat Righelato, Kenneth Rexroth - Thomas Evans, Marianne Moore - Lorrayne Carroll, E.E.Cummings - Brian Docherty, Objectivism - Richard Bradbury, Frank O'Hara - Eric Mottram, Charles Olson -Gavin Selerie, Allen Ginsberg - Brian Docherty, Edward Dorn - Geoff Ward, Robert Creeley - Alistair Wisker, Denise Levertov - Nancy K. Gish, Index