Essays on Modern Poetry and Criticism is divided into two main parts. Part one presents a pantheon of poets representing British poetry, Stevie Smith (1902-1971); Ted Hughes (1930-1998); Carol Ann Duffy (1955- ); American Poetry, Wallace Stevens (1879- 1955); E. E. Cummings (1894-1962); and African American Poetry, Langston Hughes (1902-1967); Countee Cullen (1903-1946); Yusef Komunyakaa (1941- ) and Ai (1947-2010). Although there are different theories of criticism that can be presented in part two, two only are discussed, viz., Feminism and Deconstructionism.Essays on this book are to a great extent based on published essays and books I wrote in the past eighteen years. Under British Poetry, the essay on Stevie Smith is based on Body Representation and Gender Reformulation: A Feminist Reading of Stevie Smiths Collected Poems, a book published in March 2012 by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. Ted Hughes essay is part of an essay on Prometheus published in Faculty of Arts Bulletin, Cairo University, April 2016. Carol Ann Duffy is extracted from Duffys Feminism and Dramatic Monologues: A Study of Some Poems from The Worlds Wife, an essay published in Herms Cairo University.