In Defense of Reason

by Winters, Yvor; Fields, Kenneth (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780804001519
• ISBN10: 0804001510
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1947-01-01
• Publisher: Swallow Pr

Table of Contents

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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