Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-552) and index.
Contents:
Desert humanist -- Stoic prophet -- Recovering the conservative mind -- A Christian humanism -- A republic of letters in the modern age -- Sojourning the waste land: friendship, thought, and poetry in the age of Eliot -- The politics of the impossible -- Ghosts in the machine ... and the House -- The center cannot hold -- The married bohemian -- Conclusion: poetry against boredom.
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