Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. 1. Introduction by Way of William Empson’s Buddha Faces 1
6. 2. What Counts as Love: Jonathan Edwards’s True Virtue 21
7. 3. Representing Grief: Emerson’s “Experience” 53
8. 4. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson’s Impersonal 79
9. 5. The Practice of Attention: Simone Weil’s Performance of Impersonality 108
10. 6. “ The Sea’s Throat”: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets 144
11. 7. “Lines of Stones”: The Unpersonified Impersonal in Melville’s Billy Budd 180
12. Notes 205
13. Index 247