Designed primarily for use as an aid to students studying courses on literature; the book beginning with an introduction to modernism; but, this book is far more than that. It is also an anthology of great works by some of the best modernist writers, and includes separate sub categories each with their accompanying literature.

So, following an introduction to realism you are provided with works by Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway among many, many others.

After this we have an introduction to expressionism with examples by T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells, Samuel, Beckett and Harlan Ellison, etc.

and finally, an introduction to impressionism, followed by works by the likes of Joseph Conrad and Jorge Luis Borges, to name but few.

The book ends with a critical guide - summing up modernism in literature.

This is a list of all the novellas, short stories, poems and *extracts contained within this tome.

Realism:

Channel Firing - Thomas Hardy
Convergence of the Twain - Thomas Hardy
A Hillside Thaw - Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night - Robert Frost
Two Tramps in Mud Time - Robert Frost
Desert Place - Robert Frost
Design - Robert Frost
Directive - Robert Frost
Greater Love - Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen
*from: Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
- The Book of the Grotesque
- Hands
- Godliness
Odour of Crysanthemums - D.H. Lawrence
The Woman Who Rode Away - D.H. Lawrence
Blood-Burning Moon - Jean Toomer
Winter Dreams - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barn-Burning - William Faulkner
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
The Front-Page Story - James T. Farrell
The Scoop - James T. Farrell
The Man Who Lived Underground - Richard Wright
The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O'Connor
The Lonliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
Twirling at Ole Miss - Terry Southern
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dreams - Joan Didion
Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse - Joe Eszterhas

Expressionism:

September 1913 - William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole - William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 - William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
Leda and the Swan - William Butler Yeats
Among School Children - William Butler Yeats
Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop - William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion - William Butler Yeats
Sunday Morning - Wallace Stevens
Domination of Black - Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird - Wallace Stevens
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman - Wallace Stevens
The Emporer of Ice-Cream - Wallace Stevens
The Idea of Order at Key West - Wallace Stevens
Farewall to Florida - Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a Destructive Force - Wallace Stevens
Patterson Book II - William Carlos Williams
Snake - D.H. Lawrence
Bavarian Gentiums - D.H. Lawrence
The Garden - Ezra Pound
In The Station of the Metro - Ezra Pound
Canto I - Ezra Pound
The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock - T.S. Elliot
The Waste Land - T.S. Elliot
A Man Who Had Fallen Amongst Thieves - E.E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill - E.E. Cummings
Anyone Lived In a Pretty How Town - E.E. Cummings
*from: The Bridge - Hart Crane
- The Brooklyn Bridge
- Van Winkle
- The River
- The Dance
Musee des Beaux Arts - W.H. Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats - W.H. Auden
In Memory of Sigmund Freud - W.H. Auden
The Shield of Achilles - W.H. Auden
Orchids - Theodore Roethke
Unfold! Unfold! - Theodore Roethke
Before I Knocked - Dylan Thomas
The Force that Threw the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - Dylan Thomas
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child In London - Dylan Thomas [X]
Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas
The Mouse And The Woman - Dylan Thomas
Skunk Hour - Robert Lowell
For the Union Dead - Robert Lowell
*from: A Coney Island of the Mind - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- The Poets Eye Obscurely Seeing
- They Were Putting Up The Statue
- Don't Let the Horse Eat That Violin [X]
- Reading Yeats I Do Not Think Of Ireland
Sunflower Sutra - Allen Ginsburg
Marriage - Gregory Corso
*from: Transformations - Ann Sexton
- Cinderella
- Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)
*from: Crow - Ted Hughes
- In Laughter
- Apple Tragedy
Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird - Peter Redgrove
Sow - Sylvia Plath
Daddy - Sylvia Plath
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
An Encounter - James Joyce
*from: A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man (Chapter I)
Act Without Words I - Samuel Beckett
A Slight Ache - Harold Pinter
A Boy And His Dog - Harlan Ellison

Impressionism:

What The Orderly Dog Saw - Ford Madox Ford
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
A Room of Ones Own, Chapter I - Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Lottery of Babylon - Jorge Luis Borges
The Night Face Up - Julio Cortazar
Blow Up - Julio Cortezar
The Secret Room - Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid - Michael Ondaatje

The book ends with a critical guide summing up modernism in literature. ( )