Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. “Making Choice of a Human Self” 1
5. Part One. Lyric Theory
6. Chapter 1. The Lyric Subject 27
7. Chapter 2. The Historical “I” 45
8. Chapter 3. The Scripted “I” 78
9. Chapter 4. The Body of Words 96
10. Part Two. Lyric Practice
11. Chapter 5. Four Quartets: Rhetoric Redeemed 115
12. Chapter 6. Wallace Stevens and “The Less Legible Meanings of Sounds” 133
13. Chapter 7. Pound’S Soundtrack: “Reading Cantos for What Is on the Page” 149
14. Chapter 8. Anne Sexton, “The Typo” 178
15. Coda. The Haunted House of “Anna” 198
16. Works Cited 205
17. Index 213