PART ONE. FOUR AMERICAN SYMBOLISTS. Hawthorne -- Whitman -- Melville -- Poe -- Prospectus.
THE SYMBOLISTIC IMAGINATION. Modern Literature -- The Philosophy of Symbolism -- Poetry and Logic -- The Question of Meaning -- American Symbolism.
AN AMERICAN TRADITION. The Puritan Sensibility -- Puritan Methodology -- Irrational Rationalism -- Disintegration and Synthesis -- "The Philosophical Method of the Americans".
TOWARD MELVILLE: SOME VERSIONS OF EMERSON. Emmerson -- "Bipolar Unity" -- Thoreau -- Organicism -- Horace Bushnell -- In Praise of Emerson.
THE FOOL OF TRUTH. The Modernity of Melville -- "Tyee" to "Mardi" -- In the Shadow of "Moby-Dick" -- "Pierre" and "Les Faux-Monnayeaurs" -- Confidence -- cm.