Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-242) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Edgar Allan Poe, the poet to a T -- T.S. Eliot and the archaeology of poetry -- Sylvia Plath's Black car of Lethe -- pt. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: essaying the poet -- Wallace Stevens: the exquisite errors of time -- The re-verses of Elizabeth Bishop -- pt. 3. The coinciding leaves of Walt Whitman -- Ezra Pound's hard currency -- Frank O'Hara: the speech of poetry -- pt. 4. Emily Dickinson's untitled discourse -- Hart Crane: inscribing the sublime -- John Ashbery: parodying the paradox.
