"Finally a much-needed volume on the interrelations between modernist poetry and modernist art in the United States!...A major contribution to the study of the sister arts." Virginia Quarterly

• 1. It must be abstract; 2. Self-subsuming artifacts: the logic of constructivist abstraction; 3. Knowledge enormous denies the god in me: abstraction and the Romantic tradition; 4. Modernist irony and the Kantian heritage; 5. Eliot's Symbolists subject as end and beginning; 6. 'The abstraction of the artist': three painterly models for the constructivist will; 7. Modes of abstraction in Modernist poetry; 8. Modernist abstraction and Pound's first Cantos: the ethos for a new Renaissance; 9. Why Stevens must be abstract; 10. Afterword: the end(s) of Modernism.

"Finally a much-needed volume on the interrelations between modernist poetry and modernist art in the United States!...A major contribution to the study of the sister arts." Virginia Quarterly

• 1. It must be abstract; 2. Self-subsuming artifacts: the logic of constructivist abstraction; 3. Knowledge enormous denies the god in me: abstraction and the Romantic tradition; 4. Modernist irony and the Kantian heritage; 5. Eliot's Symbolists subject as end and beginning; 6. 'The abstraction of the artist': three painterly models for the constructivist will; 7. Modes of abstraction in Modernist poetry; 8. Modernist abstraction and Pound's first Cantos: the ethos for a new Renaissance; 9. Why Stevens must be abstract; 10. Afterword: the end(s) of Modernism.

"Finally a much-needed volume on the interrelations between modernist poetry and modernist art in the United States!...A major contribution to the study of the sister arts." Virginia Quarterly

• 1. It must be abstract; 2. Self-subsuming artifacts: the logic of constructivist abstraction; 3. Knowledge enormous denies the god in me: abstraction and the Romantic tradition; 4. Modernist irony and the Kantian heritage; 5. Eliot's Symbolists subject as end and beginning; 6. 'The abstraction of the artist': three painterly models for the constructivist will; 7. Modes of abstraction in Modernist poetry; 8. Modernist abstraction and Pound's first Cantos: the ethos for a new Renaissance; 9. Why Stevens must be abstract; 10. Afterword: the end(s) of Modernism.