Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Andrew Marvell: The Aesthetics of Inconclusiveness 24
6. The Faerie Queene: How the Poem Vanishes 44
7. Areopagitica and the Images of Truth 85
8. Paradise Lost: The Uncertain Epic 104
9. Interchapter: The Hollow Rent 128
10. Don Juan: The Sea and St. Peter's 148
11. The Triumph of Life: The Unfinished and the Question Mark 184
12. The Two Hyperions: Compositions and Decompositions 211
13. Τ. S. Eliot: Mythos, Logos, and the Design of Accident 250
14. Ezra Pound and the Logocentric Survival 271
15. Afterword 295
16. Postscript 311
17. Index 313