Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Poetry as Wish Fulfillment 17
5. II. The Taste of Freedom 37
6. III. Winter of His Discontent 51
7. IV. Hallucination and Epiphany 70
8. V. The Poem as Fugue 93
9. VI. The Tortured Heart 115
10. VII. The Unstable Image 132
11. VII. The New Language 162
12. IX. The New Poetry 178
13. X. From the Far Side of Despair 201
14. XI. The Poem as Secret 223
15. Appendix: Translation of the "Lettre du voyant" 233
16. Bibliographical Note 239
17. Index 245