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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nModern American poetry / [edited by] Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s period studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-7910-8237-7 (alk. paper)  \n1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Modernism (Literature)—United States. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.  \nPS374 .M535M63 2005 811’.508—dc22  \n2005000754  \nContributing editor: Jesse Zuba Cover design by Keith Trego Cover:  \nLayout by EJB Publishing Services  \nAll links and web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material and secure copyright permission. Articles appearing in this volume generally appear much as they did in their original publication with little to no editorial changes. Those interested in locating the original source will find bibliographic information on the first page of each article as well as in the bibliography and acknowledgments sections of this volume.  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nMotives and Motifs in the Poetry of Marianne Moore 35  \nKenneth Burke  \nMauberley 53  \nHugh Kenner  \nThe Shadow of a Myth 71  \nAlan Trachtenberg  \nOpen to the Weather 89  \nThomas R. Whitaker  \nDouceurs, Tristesses 111  \nHelen Hennessy Vendler  \nNew Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 143  \nRobert Langbaum  \nSoundings for Home 167  \nRichard Poirier  \nHow Shall I Be Mirror to This Modernity?: 195  \nWilliam Carlos Williams’s “Paterson”  \nJames E. Miller, Jr.  \nvi Contents  \nLate Poems: Places, Common and Other 233  \nEleanor Cook  \nHelmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 253  \nEdward Hirsch  \nDice of Drowned Men’s Bones 281  \nLangdon Hammer  \nLyricism: At the Back of the North Wind 311  \nKatherine Kearns  \nT.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 343 David Bromwich  \nH.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 363  \nLouis L. Martz  \nJazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: 395  \nThe Poetry of Langston Hughes Anita Patterson  \nMoore’s America 427  \nBonnie Costello  \nChronology 459  \nContributors 465  \nBibliography 469  \nAcknowledgments 475  \nIndex 477  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction comments upon eight poets: E.A. 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