The following are just a selection of books about modern poetry available at the Standish Library.
The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Modernism and after by 
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry by 
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by 
Gendered Modernisms by 
George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism by 
The H. D. Book by 
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry by 
The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Modern poetry, or modernist poetry, is the work of a group of writers who published between 1900 and 1945. The list below is not meant to be an exhaustive list of the poets, but may give you a starting point for reading and/or research.
The poets listed below are considered Objectivists, a sub-category of Modern Poets.
Amy Lowell, American Modern by 
The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by 
The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams by 
Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot by 
A Gertrude Stein Companion by 
A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia by 
Mina Loy: woman and poet by 
W. H. Auden Encyclopedia by 
