From the Book - Regular Print
Prelude: reading to stay alive, poetic thinking --
Introduction: the rhetoric of poetic thinking --
William Shakespeare and John Milton: in every deep, a lower deep --
Milton: the Shakespearean epic --
Milton and William Blake: the human form divine --
William Wordsworth and John Keats: something evermore about to be --
Wordsworth: the myth of memory --
Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron: serpent and eagle --
Keats: they seek no wonder but the human face --
Robert Browning: what in the midst lay but the tower itself? --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: lest one good custom should corrupt the world --
Walt Whitman: I stop somewhere waiting for you --
Robert Frost: drink and be whole again beyond confusion --
Wallace Stevens: the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind --
William Butler Yeats and D. H. Lawrence: start with the shadow --
Hart Crane: the unknown God --
Sigismund Schlomo Freud: speculation and wisdom --
Dante/Center and Shakespeare/Circumference
