Introduction | p. ix |
A Foreword | p. 3 |
The Morality of Poetry | p. 17 |
The Experimental School in American Poetry: An Analytical Survey of Its Structural Methods, Exclusive of Meter | p. 30 |
Poetic Convention | p. 75 |
Primitivism and Decadence | p. 90 |
The Influence of Meter on Poetic Convention | p. 103 |
Foreword | p. 153 |
Maule's Curse: Or Hawthorne and the Problem of Allegory | p. 157 |
Fenimore Cooper: Or the Ruins of Time | p. 176 |
Herman Melville: And the Problems of Moral Navigation | p. 200 |
Edgar Allan Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism | p. 234 |
Jones Very and R. W. Emerson: Aspects of New England Mysticism | p. 262 |
Emily Dickinson: And the Limits of Judgment | p. 283 |
Maule's Well: Or Henry James and the Relation of Morals to Manners | p. 300 |
A Brief Selection of the Poems of: Jones Very | p. 344 |
Preliminary Problems | p. 361 |
Henry Adams: Or the Creation of Confusion | p. 374 |
Wallace Stevens: Or the Hedonist's Progress | p. 431 |
T. S. Eliot: Or the Illusion of Reaction | p. 460 |
John Crowe Ransom: Or Thunder without God | p. 502 |
Post Scripta | p. 556 |
The Significance of the Bridge, by Hart Crane: Or What Are We to Think of Professor X? | p. 577 |
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