Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. 1. Ethical poetry, poetic ethics, and the sentence of poetry 3
5. 2. Poetic thinking and the forma tractandi 67
6. 3. Poetic disposition and the forma tractatus 117
7. 4. Assimilatio and the material of poetry 179
8. 5. The assimilation of the real world 248
9. 6. 'Consideratio' and the audiences of poetry 288
10. Index of subjects and authors 315
11. Index of manuscripts 325