Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics Book

	Preface
	Introduction : poets on poetics
	To my muse, upon her return	6
	from Book two, Epistle III, to the Pisos	9
	Madly singing in the mountains	15
	No room for grief	16
	from Astrophil and Stella	18
	Invocation to the Faerie Queene	20
	from The marriage of heaven and hell	23
	The author to her book	25
	On imagination	27
	from Preface to Kubla Khan	30
	from The letters	32
	from The poet	36
	from Letters to a young poet	41
	Tradition and the individual talent	44
	from Play and theory of Duende	53
	from Fending off the Duende	56
	from Goatfoot, milktongue, twinbird : infantile origins of poetic form	62
	from Letter to Norman Holmes Pearson	70
	from Coming across : establishing the intent of a poem	73
	from Closing the door	74
	from Stealing the language	75
	from Dancing at the devil's party	79
	from Cante Moro	81
	Digging	83
	from The spiral of memory	86
	from The triggering town	91
	"When I stand around among poets ..."	96
	The poet and the world, Nobel lecture, 1996	98
	from Towards the splendid city, Nobel lecture, 1971	104
	Diseuse	108
	Poetry as a vessel of remembrance	112
	from Prologue to the Aetia	124
	from Book two, Troilus and Criseyde	128
	from Kyorai's conversations with Basho	131
	A fit for rhyme against rhyme	135
	from A defense of rhyme	138
	from Introduction to Paradise lost	140
	The apology	143
	from An essay on criticism	145
	from Preface to lyrical ballads	149
	from Biographia Literaria	151
	from The philosophy of composition	155
	from Preface to poems	159
	from Remarks on poetry	162
	The poem as a field of action	167
	A few don'ts by an Imagiste	172
	from Feeling and precision	177
	from A general introduction for my work	181
	from To Harriet Monroe, editor of poetry : a magazine of verse	185
	from The noble rider and the sound of words	190
	from Conversations on the craft of poetry with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren	196
	Housekeeping cages	204
	from Table talk, a Paris review interview with Chris Busa	207
	from Hamlet and his problems	212
	from Writing	214
	from The virgin & the dynamo	215
	from The poet & the city	217
	On footnotes (to John Frederick Nims)	219
	from The Negro artist and the racial mountain	222
	Personism : a manifesto	225
	from Postscript II : notes on certain unwritten poems	229
	from The pleasures of formal poetry	232
	from Listening and making	243
	"I will put chaos into fourteen lines"	250
	from How to write like somebody else	252
	from Some remarks on rhythm	252
	from Projective verse	257
	from Ideas on the meaning of form	264
	from The prose poem : an alternative to verse	265
	from An interview with Daniel Kane	270
	from Of formal, free, and fractal verse : singing the body electric	273
	from Moving means, meaning moves	277
	from More WordWorks	280
	from A conversation with Harryette Mullen	283
	from The rejection of closure	287
	from Of the sonnet and paradoxical beauties : an interview with Joyce Wilson	289
	from Control is the mainspring	291
	from Owning the masters	294
	from How pastoral : a manifesto	297
	from Patriarchal poetry	301
	from Coherent decentering : towards a new model of the poetic self	304
	from Egil's saga	313
	Sonnet LV	316
	from The four ages of poetry	318
	from A defence of poetry	320
	The dead man asks for a song	324
	from Preface to Leaves of grass 1855	326
	from Song of myself, stanza 2	327
	from The study of poetry	330
	from To whom is the poet responsible?	335
	from Letters to a young poet	339
	from The obscurity of the poet	343
	from The difficulty of difficult poetry	346
	from Introduction to the best American poetry, 1990	350
	from The rare union : poetry and science	355
	from Elegy of midnight	359
	from Elegy of the trade winds	360
	from "What would we create?"	361
	from Notebook of a return to the native land	365
	from Poetry is not a luxury	369
	from Horses with wings	373
	from The future of black poetry	377
	Against national poetry month as such	380
	from And may he be bilingual	386
	from Interview with Marie Jordan	389
	from Lights in the windows	394
	from Why poetry today?	398
	from The Antilles : fragments of epic memory : Nobel Prize lecture, 1992	402
	Nobel Prize lecture, 1980	407