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Tables of Contents for Words That Matter
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A Note on Editions and Citations
xi
Prologue
1
6
Frozen Words
7
36
Latin and Lexicons
43
28
The Definitive Word
71
96
Stones Well Squared
Definition in The Forrest and The Faerie Queene
101
36
Magic and Metaphor
Tree Rings in the Renaissance Arboretum
137
30
Weighing Words
167
68
The Giant's Scales
167
22
Donne's Pre-deliberations, or Scaling the Heights
189
25
Donne's Final Word or Last Character: Life Lived and Life Written
214
21
Notes
235
66
Works Cited
301
30
Index
331