Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Love Rhymes with Of 7
5. 2. The Sense of Rhyme: Sidney and Shakespeare 33
6. 3. Titles in George Herbert’s “Little Book” 57
7. 4. Thing and Things: Wordsworth, Stevens, Ashbery 83
8. 5. Optical Illusions: Wordsworth and His Inheritors 108
9. 6. William Carlos Williams’s Redesigning 131
10. 7. Frost’s “Obvious” Titles 148
11. 8. Frost’s Design 166
12. 9. Anonymity: The Literary History of a Word 182
13. Notes 205
14. Index 221