Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor 27
7. Chapter Two ‘The music of all present’: Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare 54
8. Chapter Three ‘Always articulating these preludes’: landscape, Wordsworth, ‘A Wave’ and after 82
9. Chapter Four ‘These decibels’: Eliot, Ashbery and allusion 106
10. Chapter Five. The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden 132
11. Bibliography 162
12. Index 184