This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.
Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include: "Not Like a Cypress" by Yehuda Amichai "Always" by Guillaume Apollinaire "Monologue for an Onion" by Sue Kwock Kim "All I Was Doing Was Breathing" by Mirabai "Seeing You" By Jean Valentine And more