A new century -- Modernist expatriates: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot -- Lyric modernism: Wallace Stephens and Hart Crane -- Gendered modernism -- William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene -- From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement -- The New Criticism and poetic formalism -- The Confessional Movement -- Lyric as meditation -- The New American Poetry and the postmodern avant-garde.