Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction. Unchanging myth -- Four changes -- "Burglar! banker - father!" : renaming God through satire. Burglar! banker - father! -- My little force explodes -- Mastering the master : appropriations of crisis conversion in the poems of 1863. The old words are numb -- Mastering the master -- The adventure of self : transforming Calvinism and Emerson's transcendentalism. Undoing Calvinism -- The world beyond Emerson -- "They shut me up in prose" : late letter - poems. A disruptive discovery -- Erasing the line between poetry and prose -- The question of publication -- Editors -- From fascicles to letters, from fixed to flux -- A letter like immortality -- The artist of the beautiful, a possibility.
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