Contents 						viii

		Anecdote of the Jar 			422
		Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 422
		The Death of a Soldier 			425
		The Idea of Order at Key West 		425
		Of Modern Poetry 			427
		The Plain Sense of Things 		428

	SUSAN GLASPELL (1876-1948) 			429
		Trifles 				430

	WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) 		444
		The Young Housewife 			446
		Portrait of a Lady 			446
		Spring and All 				447
		To Elsie 				448
		The Red Wheelbarrow			450
		Death 					451
		This Is Just to Say			452
		The Dance 				452
		Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 	458

	EZRA POUND (1885-1972) 				455
		Portrait D'une Femme 			456
		A Pact 					457
		In a Station of the Metro 		458
		The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	458
		Canto I 				459

	H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) 		462
		Oread 					463
		Leda 					463
		Helen 					464

	ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 			466
		To the Stone-Cutters 			467
		Shine, Perishing Republic 		467
		Hurt Hawks 				468

	MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 			470
		Poetry 					471
		A Grave 				473
		To a Snail 				474

	T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 				475
		The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 	477
		Tradition and the Individual Talent 	482