Modern American Poetry

Index 481

American poets, 1–33
introduction, 1–33
A Map of Misreading, 30
Blue Estuaries 1923–1968, The
(Bogan), 464
Blues People: Negro Music in White
America(Baraka), 406–7
Body of This Death(Bogan), 461
Bogan, Louise, 276–77
The Blue Estuaries 1923–1968,
464
Body of This Death, 461
Dark Summer, 462
death, 464
The Sleeping Fury, 462
“Bonfire, The” (Frost), 320–21, 329,
334
“Botticellian Trees, The”
(Williams), 109
Bouvard et Pécuchet (Flaubert), 56
“Boy of Winander, The” (Frost),
188
Boy’s Will, A (Frost), 4, 191, 327,
333, 336, 460
Bradley, F.H., 161–62, 166, 260, 354
Brave New World (Huxley), 462
Bridge, The (Crane), 25–27, 282, 462
American history in, 74–75,
80–81, 83, 410
influence on, 198, 345
modernist theory in, 351–56
negation in, 274–75
redemption and evil in, 71–88,
303
rhythm and imagery in, 29, 81,
284, 290, 293, 306
Broken Span (Williams), 463
“Broken Tower, The” (Crane), 271,
362
Orphic quest in, 26, 32–33
structure of, 290, 292
Bromwich, David, 467

on Eliot’s influence on Crane,

343–62

“Brook in the City, A” (Frost), 332

Brooks, Gwendolyn

A Street in Bronzeville, 463

on The Wasteland, 143, 148

We Real Cool, 464

Brooks Van Wyck, 255, 282

“The Literary Life,” 257

Brother to Dragons (Warren), 464

Browning, Robert, 15

influences of, 22–24

influence on Robinson, 2

“Bull, The” (Williams), 95–96

“Buried Life, The” (Arnold), 145,

147

Burke, Kenneth, 465

on Crane, 72

on Moore’s radiant sensitivity,

35–52

Burnett, Gary, 370

“Burning the Christmas Greens”

(Williams), 11

“Burnt Dancer, The” (Eliot), 411

“By the Watermelon Vine” (Eliot),

411

“Cabin in the Clearing, A” (Frost), 5

Cane(Toomer), 461

Cantos of Ezra Pound, The (Pound),

53–58, 68, 207, 214, 259

poems in, 61, 64–65, 198

Canzoni (Pound), 460

“Cape Hatteras” (Crane, H.), 285

violence in, 76

Whitman in, 75

Captain Craig and Other Poems

(Robinson), 1, 460

“Captain Craig” in, 4

Carlyle, Thomas, 61

“Cassandra” (H.D.), 369

“Castaway, The” (Cowper), 190