I. On Yeats's Poem "Leda and the Swan"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Contents xvii
5. I. On Yeats's Poem "Leda and the Swan" 1
6. II. Explication de Texte Applied to Walt Whitman’s Poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” 14
7. III. “Tears, Idle Tears” Again 37
8. IV. A Reinterpretation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” 51
9. V. The “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” or Content vs. Metagrammar 67
10. VI. Marvell's “Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn” 98
11. VII. Understanding Milton 116
12. VIII. Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder” 132
13. IX. Three Poems on Ecstasy: John Donne, St. John of the Cross, Richard Wagner 139
14. X. Spenser, “Shepheardes Calendar, March” (Lines 61-114) and the Variorum Edition 180
15. XI. Explication de texte Applied to Three Great Middle English Poems 193
16. Appendix: American Advertising Explained as Popular Art 248
17. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
18. INDEX 287