| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: | List of Illustrations | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson | 3 | | Pt. 1 | A Revolution of the Word | 43 | | 1 | "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris | 45 | | 2 | Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries) | 76 | | Pt. 2 | Dichtung und Wahrheit | 119 | | 3 | The Truth of Poetry. An Argument | 121 | | 4 | The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue) | 151 | | Afterword | 176 | | Notes | 181 | | Index | 191 | Return to Book Description File created: 4/23/2008 |