Modern American Poetry

viii Editor’s Note

Langdon Hammer traces the antithetical influences of William Blake and
T.S. Eliot on the young Hart Crane.
Katherine Kearns, in a brilliant feminist reading of Frost, shows us
Frost’s obsession with visionary, mythical maidens, after which David
Bromwich accurately depicts Hart Crane’s struggle with Eliot’s influence.
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) is praised by L.L. Martz as a prophet who
proclaimed a curious new religion that blended lesbianism and Sigmund
Freud.
The Harlem jazz poet, Langston Hughes, is realistically hailed by
Anita Patterson for his authentic sense of the aesthetic achievement of jazz,
while Bonnie Costello concludes this volume with an apotheosis of Marianne
Moore as a poet of the American landscape.