Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Apogee of Modernity in Spain, 1915-1928; One View of Modernity; High Modernity in Spain, 1915-1924; The Poetics of the Generation of 1927; The Poem as Icon; 2. Currents in Spanish Modernity, 1915-1939; A Strand of Indeterminacy, 1915-1928; A Loss of Purity: Spanish Modernity, 1929-1936; A New Determinism: Committed Poetry; 3. After the War, 1940-1965; From Message to Form: Garcilaso, Formalism, Cantico, 1940-1949; A New Realistic Poetics, 1944-1960.

Testimonial Poetry, 1944-1960: The Communication of Personal, Religious, and Existential EmotionsNotes of Indeterminacy: Postismo, Surrealism; Social and Political Poetry, 1950-1965; Poets in Exile; 4. New Directions for Spanish Poetry, 1956-1970; A New Era, a New Poetics; Experience and Discovery by the New Castilian Poets; Andalusian Poets, 1956-1970; The School of Barcelona; Older Poets, New Consciousness, New Forms; 5. The Postmodern Time of the Novisimos, 1966-1980; A Poetics of Language; Art as Elevation and Refuge: Gimferrer, Carnero, Azua, Cuenca.

Popular Culture, the Irrational, SurrealismReturn to the Personal: Alvarez, Villena, Colinas; Contained Form, Silence, Self-Referentiality; Established Poets, New Directions; 6. The Evolution of Postmodern Poetry, 1978-1990; A Very Immediate Past; From Silence to Essence; New Directions, Established Poets: Expressions of Feeling and Experience; Expressive Poetry: New Voices I; Expressive Poetry: New Voices II; From Expression to Satire, Irony, and Subversion; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.