Preface
David Jonathan Bayot
Acknowledgments
Marjorie Perloff
Introduction. Circling the Canon
Marjorie Perloff
Chapter 1. The Hard Hours (Anthony Hecht)
Chapter 2. Yeats as Gnostic (Harold Bloom, Allen Grossman)
Chapter 3. Extremist Poetry: Some Versions of the Sylvia Plath Myth (Sylvia Plath, A. Alvarez)
Chapter 4. Poetry Chronicle, 1970-1971 (Frank O'Hara, A. R. Ammons, and others)
Chapter 5. Roots and Blossoms (James Wright, Richard Hugo, Thom Gunn)
Chapter 6. Mona Van Duyn's Disguises (Mona Van Duyn)
Chapter 7. The Poet and his Politics (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Chace, David Craig)
Chapter 8. Pound's Vorticist Textbook (Ezra Pound)
Chapter 9. Art Chronicles (Frank O'Hara)
Chapter 10. Battle of the Books (Harold Bloom, Hugh Kenner)
Chapter 11. The Poet as Critic (Frank O'Hara)
Chapter 12. The Poetry of Edward Dorn (Edward Dorn)
Chapter 13. Robert Lowell in Search of Himself (Robert Lowell)
Chapter 14. Talking at the Boundaries (David Antin)
Chapter 15. Houseboat Days (John Ashbery)
Chapter 16. Charles Olson in Connecticut (Charles Boer)
Chapter 17. The Greening of Charles Olson (Robert von Hallberg, Sherman Paul, Paul Christensen)
Chapter 18. Poetic Artifice (Veronica Forrest-Thompson)
Chapter 19. The Vendler Factor (Helen Vendler)
Chapter 20. The Dice Cup (Max Jacob)
Chapter 21. The Challenge of German Lyric: Goethe and Heine in Translation (J. W. von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Christopher Middleton, Hal Draper)
Chapter 22. The French Connection (Stephane Mallarmé, André Breton, Francis Ponge, Aimé Césaire, Paul Auster, Ron Padgett, David Antin, Jean-Pierre Chauvin, Mary Ann Caws, Clayton Eshleman, Annette Smith)
Chapter 23. The Case of Amy Clampitt: A Reading of "Imago" (Amy Campitt)
Chapter 24. "Dirty" Language and Scramble Systems (Laurie Anderson, Kathleen Fraser)
Chapter 25. Hölderlin Our Contemporary (Richard Sieburth)
Chapter 26. Of Canons and Contemporaries (Helen Vendler)
Chapter 27. Agon (Harold Bloom)
Chapter 28. Theories of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger, Jean Weisgerber)
Chapter 29. The Rise and Fall of English Modernism (Hugh Kenner)
Chapter 30. Sylvia Plath as Cultural Icon (Jacqueline Rose)
Chapter 31. What to Make of a Diminished Thing (Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion, Anthony Thwaite)
Chapter 32. The Poetry of Kurt Schwitters (Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris)
