Part 1. A voice she heard before the world was made -- Part 2. Self-otherseeing and the Shakespearean sublime -- Part 3. In the elegy season: John Milton, the visionary company, and Victorian poetry -- Part 4. The imperfect is our paradise: Walt Whitman and twentieth-century American poetry.
Summary:
"In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief ... readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors--texts he has known by heart since childhood"-- Provided by publisher.
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