Contents -- Introduction. Unacknowledged Legislators: Modernist Poetry and Democracy -- Chapter 1. 'No artist can ever love democracy': Modernism and Democracy 1907-1914 -- Liberalism before the First World War -- Ego Vogues: The Philosophical Attack on Democracy -- The English Reception of Stirner and Nietzsche: 1907-1914 -- Feminist Egoists: 1907-1914 -- Chapter 2. Modernist Literature: Individualism and Authority -- T. E. Hulme, Rousseau, and Democracy -- Ezra Pound, Freedom of Expression, and Bourgeois Women: 1911-1915 -- 'We make you a present of our votes. Only leave works of art alone': Futurism and Vorticism -- Skewing Art and Sex: Tarr and the Critique of Mimesis -- The War, Mass Democracy, and the Individual: 1917-1924 -- The Post-War Average: The New Democratic Standard -- Women Egoists -- Chapter 3. H.D.: Egoist Modernism -- H.D., the New Freewoman, and Egoism -- Romantic or Classic?: H.D.'s Early Poems -- 'Some outer horror': The Language of Poetry -- 'Unacknowledged Legislators': Modernist Poets -- Men and Women: H.D. on Lawrence -- Recognition in H.D.'s Mature Poetry -- Egocentric History: Trilogy -- Chapter 4. T. S. Eliot, Women, and Democracy -- Romanticism and Classicism -- Bourgeois Women in Eliot's Early Poems -- Democratized Voices: Ara Vos Prec and The Waste Land -- 'Authority not democracy': Eliot's Essays of the 1920s -- Against Liberalism: After Strange Gods -- Chapter 5. Mina Loy: Pyscho-Democracy -- Women of the Future: Loy's Feminism, 1910-1916 -- Virgins and Erotic Garbage: Loy's Early Poems -- Loy's Psycho-Democracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.