Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. INTRODUCTION: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson 1
7. PART ONE: A Revolution of the Word
8. 1 "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris 45
9. 2 Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) 76
10. PART TWO: Dichtung und Wahrheit
11. 3 The Truth of Poetry. An Argument 121
12. 4 The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue) 151
13. Afterword 176
14. Notes 181
15. Index 191