Lyric poetry: the pain and the pleasure of words

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Making Choice of a Human Self 1 PART ONE: Lyric Theory Chapter 1: Lyric Subject 27 Chapter 2: Historical I 45 Chapter 3: Scripted I 78 Chapter 4: Body of Words 96 PART TWO: Lyric Practice Chapter 5: Four Quartets: Rhetoric Redeemed 115 Chapter 6: Wallace Stevens and The Less Legible Meanings of Sounds 133 Chapter 7: Pound's Soundtrack: Reading Cantos for What Is on the Page 149 Chapter 8: Anne Sexton, The Typo 178 Coda: Haunted House of Anna 198 Works Cited 205 Index 213