Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Motives and motifs in the poetry of Marianne Moore / Kenneth Burke -- Mauberley / Hugh Kenner -- The shadow of a myth / Alan Trachtenberg -- Open to the weather / Thomas R. Whitaker -- Douceurs, tristesses / Helen Hennessy Vendler -- New modes of characterization in The waste land / Robert Langbaum -- Soundings for home / Richard Poirier -- How shall I be mirror to this modernity? : William Carlos Williams's Patterson / James E. Miller, Jr. -- Late poems : places, common and other / Eleanor Cook -- Helmet of fire : American poetry in the 1920s / Edward Hirsch -- Dice of drowned men's bones / Langdon Hammer -- Lyricism : at the back of the north wind / Katherine Kearns -- T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane / David Bromwich -- H.D. : set free to prophesy / Louis L. Martz -- Jazz, realism, and the modernist lyric : the poetry of Langston Hughes / Anita Patterson -- Moore's America / Bonnie Costello.