ch. 1. The modern and the past -- ch. 2. The nature of modernism: Dionysus -- ch. 3. The nature of modernism: the city -- ch. 4. The beginning of modernism in English verse (1909-1914) -- ch. 5. Three Southerners as moderns -- ch. 6. The newer criticism -- ch. 7. Poetry since the mid-century -- ch. 8. In place of a conclusion.