The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of “literary modernism” – which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945 – to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry's evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods. ' a helpful book, likely to be of use to students and scholars in disciplines like cultural and literary studies and much else.' Reference Reviews '??? a helpful book, likely to be of use to students and scholars in disciplines like cultural and literary studies and much else.' Reference Reviews '? a helpful book, likely to be of use to students and scholars in disciplines like cultural and literary studies and much else.' Reference Reviews '� a helpful book, likely to be of use to students and scholars in disciplines like cultural and literary studies and much else.' Reference Reviews '... a helpful book, likely to be of use to students and scholars in disciplines like cultural and literary studies and much else.' Reference Reviews The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century. Walter Kalaidjian is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past and editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge, 2005).