Identity and Society in American Poetry: The Romantic Tradition
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Pound’s Casual Mysticism

105

Containing Power in Language

109

The Translator as God

113

The Search for a Company

117

Questioning the Public Self

131

Romanticism, Modernism, and Liberalism (Revisited)

136

Chapter 4: Infinity and Communityin Emerson and Pound

141

Public and Private: Emersonian Paradoxes

144

The Self as Other: More Emersonian Paradoxes

149

The Community of Solitude (Revisited)

156

Pound: The Elimination of Otherness

163

The Cantos as a Mirror of Self

168

A Brief Summary

179

Chapter 5: The Poem as Social Contract: Notes on the School of Pound

181

Limiting the Self

188

Williams: The Importance of Place

193

Paterson, Book One: Twilight of the Gods

201

Person as Place: Zukofsky, Olson, and Creeley

208

Chapter 6: The “New Liberalism”of Williams and Olson

219

Radical Pluralism: Self and Fact in Paterson

222

Freedom of Association: The Maximus Poems

235

Afterword: Wisdom and Community

251

Notes

255

Works Cited and Consulted

269

Index

285