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Tables of Contents for Work of Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
PART I POETIC SUBSTANCES
The Work of Poetry
3
10
Originality
13
26
A Poetry of Restitution
39
25
What You Mean by Home
64
14
Dreaming Poetry
78
18
Of of: The Poetics of a Preposition
96
17
PART II POETIC EXPERIENCES
Hearing and Overhearing the Psalms
113
16
On A Child's Garden of Verses
129
14
My Poetic Generation
143
9
Discovering Wallace Stevens
152
8
O Heavy Verse! The Shopwork of the Workshops
160
17
PART III THE WORK OF POETS
Whitman's Difficult Availability
177
13
Arduous Fullness: On Dante Gabriel Rossetti
190
10
The Poetry of Nonsense: Carroll's Quest Romance
200
10
A Poem Lost and Found: Jean Ingelow's Successful ``Failure''
210
5
Meredith's Poetry
215
7
``Far Space and Long Antiquity'': Trumbull Stickney's Autumns
222
13
Spoon River Anthology: A Late Appreciation
235
15
Marianne Moore's Verse
250
21
Modes and Ranges of a Long Dawn: Robert Penn Warren's Poetry
271
9
Elizabeth Bishop's Mappings of Life
280
8
May Swenson's Massive Panoply
288
11
The Scarred Most Sacred: Some Remarks on Geoffrey Hill
299
8
Index
307