CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Liberal Measures: Prolegomenon to a Poetics of English Modernism -- I: Harmonic Politics -- II: The Journalistic Turn -- III: The Literary State -- IV: Critical Poetics -- INTERCHAPTER 1: Lessons for the Relative Alien -- 2 Pound's Savage Ratios -- I: Mimicry, with Differences -- II: The Student of Contemporary Mentality -- III: The Arranger of Inanities -- IV: Homage to Sextus Propertius -- V: Propoundius: His Aftermath -- VI: The Decay of This Generation -- INTERCHAPTER 2: Stein -- 3 Mr. Eliot's Wartime Services -- I: Oppositions, Repossessions, Performances -- II: English, in French -- III: Powers of Four -- IV: Sunday Morning Decadence -- V: Poetic Modernism -- VI: Pound, Eliot, and the Making of The Waste Land: Policing the Voices -- INTERCHAPTER 3: Ford -- 4 Woolf, Among the Modernists -- I: Voyaging Out -- II: Shorts -- III: Jacob's Room -- IV: Mrs. Dalloway's Insubordinate Clause -- V: Unbracketed -- EPILOGUE: A Memory for Modernism, the New Critical Constructions, and This Awful Truth of Pseudotruth -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.