Preface -- I. Introduction -- "Modern" and "contemporary" -- Examples -- II. Voices -- Preliminary -- Lowell -- Berryman -- Hardy, Ransom, Berryman -- III. The romantic persistence -- "Romantic": "Ode to a Nightingale" -- "Modern": "The Term," "The Most of It," and "The Snow Man" -- Generalities -- "Contemporary" -- IV. Conventions of wonder -- "Description": Bogan, O'Hara -- "Description": some contemporaries -- Wonder and derangement: "Orchids," "Badger," and "Poppies in July" -- V. The discursive aspect of poetry -- "Earnestness"" Cunningham, Bidart -- Ammons -- McMichael's "Itinerary" -- Poetic dictions and prose virtues -- Final remarks.
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