Introduction / Harold Bloom

Paterson and epic tradition / Peter Schmidt

The cantos of Ezra Pound, the truth in contradiction / Jerome J. McGann

Marianne Moore: idiom and idiosyncrasy / Robert Pinsky

Taming the socialist: Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems and its critics / Mark Van Wienen

Modernism comes to American poetry: 1908-1920 / Roger Mitchell

From etymology to paronomasia: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others / Eleanor Cook

Robert Frost and the poetry of survival / Jay Parini

Uncanny millay / Suzanne Clark

So many selves: the "I" as indeterminate multiplicity / Martin Heusser.