Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	On Making the Masterpiece	3
	Laura Riding and Her Traveling Circus	12
	Robed in Images: The Memoirs of James Merrill	22
	Partying on Parnassus: The New York School Poets	32
	Wilde the Poet	46
	"When the Ecstatic Body Grips"	68
	First-class Mail: A Wit and His World	74
	Squaring the Circle: Stephane Mallarme	80
	Rimbaud, the Anarchic Demiurge	103
	A Great, Baggy Monster: Rilke's "Duino Elegies"	127
	Death Fugues: The Poems of Paul Celan	143
	Anna Akhmatova	162
	Brodsky in Retrospect	180
	On Translation	194
	Traduttore, Traditore, or the Tradition of Traducing	197
	Victimized Verlaine	249
	Index	257