Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. Permissions x
5. Introduction: Counterpoetics and Colonial Modernity 1
6. Part I: Specters of Modernity
7. 1. Overture. The Burden of Discontinuity: Criticism, Colonialism, and Anti-Modernism 21
8. 2. Crossing Over: On James Clarence Mangan’s “Spirits Everywhere” 49
9. 3. 1913–1916–1919: Yeats’s Dates 65
10. 4. “To Live Surrounded by a White Song,” or, The Sublimation of Race in Experiment: On the Margins of Susan Howe 90
11. Part II: New Things That Have Happened
12. 5. New Things That Have Happened: Forms of Irish Poetry 113
13. 6. Intricate Walking: Scully’s Livelihood 134
14. 7. Rome’s Wreck: Joyce’s Baroque 162
15. Conclusion. Conduits for the Humane: Walsh’s Optic Verve 186
16. Appendix to Chapter 2: Crossing Over 200
17. Bibliography 202
18. Index 213