Adorno, Theodor, 37–38

Aristotle, 10, 69, 177

Arnold, Matthew, 3, 17–18, 137

Ashbery, John, 21, 192, 209, 265n64

Bentham, Jeremy, 25, 33, 41–42, 44, 63, 253

Berkeley, George Bishop, 41, 49

Bernstein, Charles, 192, 210

Bishop, Elizabeth, 192, 265n62

Blackburn, Paul, 192

Blake, William, 8, 34–35, 37, 41

Bloom, Harold, 3–7, 60–62, 66, 74–75, 102–103, 260n28, 265n64

Bly, Robert, 192, 267n81

Brooks, Cleanth, 3, 18

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 34–35, 41, 152–153, 242, 264n58

Cavell, Stanley, 47, 76, 86, 108, 139, 142–148, 156, 220, 239–240, 262n47

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 38, 164

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1–2, 16, 26, 33–34, 39, 41–45, 47–50, 53, 59–60, 79, 117, 184, 253

Confessional Poets, 21, 99

Confucius, 171–172, 211

Crane, Hart, 192, 265n65

Creeley, Robert, 185, 192, 229, 241, 265n64

achievement of community, 208–217

Derrida, Jacques, 47, 90, 92–93, 139, 142, 145, 158, 161, 262n43

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.), 5

Dryden, John, 13–14, 40

Duncan, Robert, 5, 9, 183, 192, 214–216, 238, 251, 265n64, 267n81

Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 3, 15, 18, 22, 97, 99, 123, 137, 175, 205, 224, 226, 231–232, 258n19, 258n21

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ix, 1–3, 8, 16, 217, 225, 248, 252, 260n31, 262n47

disillusionment in “Experience,”, 64, 93–95, 262n44

as founder of a literary tradition, 36, 65–68, 86–90, 142, 185

as a “mystical empiricist,”, 19, 35–55, 57–60, 73–81, 184, 189–190, 255–256n5, 257n11

social and political vision, 20, 68–73, 87, 90–93, 141–163, 183, 189–190

view of language, 11, 58–59, 81–86, 187, 227, 261n35, 263–264n55, 264n56

view of the self, 16, 57–95, 182, 186, 199, 210, 216, 256n7

Fenollosa, Ernest, 110–114, 126, 134, 136, 144, 165, 171, 261n35, 263n50

Frankfurt School, 15, 37–38