CHAPTER 4. The Muse Has a Deeper Secret

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Abbreviations xi
4. Contents xiii
5. Introduction: New Demands on Literature 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Poetry Warps Away from Life 7
7. CHAPTER 2. “Threnody”: The Hidden Allegory 30
8. CHAPTER 3. The Act of Imagination 45
9. CHAPTER 4. The Muse Has a Deeper Secret 74
10. CHAPTER 5. Crisis 111
11. CHAPTER 6. A Breakthrough into Spaciousness 134
12. CHAPTER 7. Apologia for Prose 160
13. CHAPTER 8. “Inward Skill”: An Armory of Powers 185
14. Notes Index
15. Notes 219
16. Index 229