Lawrence Rainey is Professor of English at the University of York. He is the founding editor of the journal Modernism / Modernity, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and The Independent. He is the author of Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture (1991), Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1998), and Revisiting The Waste Land (2005). He has also edited The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot s Contemporary Prose (2005).

Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published.Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett.

Acknowledgments.Introduction.A Note on the Selection, Texts, and Order of Presentation.CONTINENTAL INTERLUDE I: Futurism (1909-14) .F. T. Marinetti The Founding and the Manifesto of Futurism (Feb. 1909).F. T. Marinetti Futurist Speech to the English (Dec. 1910).F. T. Marinetti Contempt for Woman (from Le Futurisme, 1911).Balla, Boccioni, Carra`, Russolo, Severini The Exhibitors to the Public (Feb. 1912) F. T. Marinetti Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature (May 1912).F. T. Marinetti A Response to Objections (Aug. 1912).Luigi Russolo The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto (Mar. 1913).F. T. Marinetti Destruction of Syntax-Wireless.Imagination-Words-in-Freedom (May 1913).F. T. Marinetti The Variety Theater (Sept. 1913).Ezra Pound.Poems .The Seafarer (1911).Portrait d'une Femme (1912).The Return (1912).In a Station of the Metro (1913).Salutation the Third (1914).Meditatio (1914).Song of the Bowmen of Shu (1915).The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (1915).Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin (1915).The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (1915).The Coming of War: Actaeon (1915).Shop Girl (1915).O Atthis (1916).The Lake Isle (1916).Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920).From The Cantos.Canto I (1917/1925).The Malatesta Cantos, VIII to XI (1923).Canto LXXXI (1948).From Canto CXV (1969).Essays .Imagisme (1912).A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste (1912).Vortex. Pound. (1914).The Chinese Written Character as Medium for Poetry (1918).T. S. Eliot.Poems .The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915).La Figlia che piange (1916).Sweeney Among the Nightingales (1918).Sweeney Erect (1919).Gerontion (1920).The Waste Land (1922).Drama .Sweeney Agonistes (1932).Essays .Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919).The Lesson of Baudelaire (1921).London Letter: May 1921.London Letter: November 1922 (Marie Lloyd).Ulysses, Order, and Myth (1923).Charles Baudelaire (Introduction to Journaux intimes) (1930).Wyndham Lewis.Fiction .Enemy of the Stars (1914).Bestre (1922).The Death of the Ankou (1927).Essays .Manifesto (1914).Inferior Religions (1917).Foreword to Tyros and Portraits (1921).The Children of the New Epoch (1921).James Joyce.Araby (1914), from Dubliners.A Little Cloud (1914), from Dubliners.Aeolus (1922), from Ulysses.Nausicaa (1922), from Ulysses.Anna Livia Plurabelle (1939), from Finnegans Wake.W. B. Yeats.Poems .A Coat (1914).The Wild Swans at Coole (1917).In Memory of Major Robert Gregory (1918).Easter, 1916 (1920).The Second Coming (1920).The Tower (1928).Sailing to Byzantium (1927).The Tower (1927).Meditations in Time of Civil War (1923).Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen (1921).The Wheel (1922).Youth and Age (1924).The New Faces (1922).A Prayer for my Son (1922).Two Songs from a Play (1927).Wisdom (1927).Leda and the Swan (1924).On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac (1922).Among School Children (1927).Colonus' Praise (1928).The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool (1922).Owen Ahern and his Dancers (1924).A Man Young and Old (1927).The Three Monuments (1927).From 'Oedipus at Colonus' (1927).The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid (1924).All Souls' Night (1921).Poems after The Tower.Crazy Jane and the Bishop (1930).Byzantium (1932).Coole and Ballylee, 1931 (1932).Come Gather Round Me Parnellites (1937).The Statues (1939).The Spur (1939).The Circus Animals' Desertion (1939).Drama .At the Hawk's Well (1916).Essays .Note on the First Performance of ''At the Hawk's Well'' (1917).''Introduction'' to Certain Noble Plays of Japan (1916).Rapallo (1929).Gertrude Stein.Prose Poems and Portraits.Tender Buttons (1914).Tourty or Tourte

Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published.Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett.Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism's dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School.Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography.Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world .