Ronald Johnsons Modernist Collage Poetry

Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnsons poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnsons work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies, especially the discontinuities commonly seen to exist between nineteenth-century Romantic and twentieth-century modernist literary forms.