Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Auden as Philosopher: How Poets Think 3
5. Wilderness and Agriculture 21
6. Once Upon a Time in the West: Heidegger and the Poets 29
7. Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence, and Ontology 39
8. The Ethics of the Negative Review 47
9. Integrity and Ornament 59
10. The Novels of Pascal: A Review of Correction by Thomas Bernhard 71
11. Being Will Be Here, Beauty Will Be Here, But This Beauty That Visits Us Now Will Be Gone 85
12. A Note on Jane Jacobs’s Systems of Survival, or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse 95
13. On Rules and Moral Beauty 103
14. Lyric, Narrative, Memory 109
15. The Syntax of Ethical Style 117
16. Frost and Snow 135
17. Haydn’s F-Flat 147
18. Acknowledgements 151
19. Notes 153
20. References 165
21. Index 179