Download or read book Modernist Quartet written by Frank Lentricchia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments, presents their poems as stories of their attempts to sustain a life in noncommercial writing, in a culture that is only hospitable, for the most part, to commercial art.