absolute rhythmSee also Pound, Ezra; metre; rhythm, 172–175, 377n59

Adorno, Theodor, 31–32n9, 36, 53, 86n15, 96n55, 234, 244–245, 248, 251–262, 266, 296n51, 296–297n54, 297n55, 297–298n57, 299n63, 299nn66–67, 300nn69–70, 300n72, 301–302n74, 302–303n85–86

Althusser, Louis, 306n109, 325, 328–336, 373n11

Anderson, Sherwood, 31n8

anthropic principle, 156–160n24

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 314–315, 346

Aristotle, 51, 371n1

Arnold, Matthew, 36, 66, 73, 78, 95–96n54, 241, 333

Auden, W. H., 179

Barthes, Roland, 83–84n8, 143n5, 304n8

Beckett, Samuel, 266, 284

Benjamin, Walter, 124n2, 227n10, 255, 266, 297n55, 315, 317, 324–325, 336, 343–351, 368, 372n8, 375nn44–45

Berryman, John, 173, 227, 276

Blake, William, 1, 56, 107, 115, 142, 143n4, 144n7, 191–193, 200–202, 204, 209, 212–213, 225–226n4, 237, 276, 285, 313, 372n4

Bradley, A. C., 234, 366–370

Brecht, Bertolt, 51, 206–207

Burke, Kenneth, 97n57, 238

Byron, George Gordon, 189

Cage, John, 65–69, 91n31, 92n36–37

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 52–53, 58, 190, 208, 211, 214–220, 227n10, 228nn11–12, 236, 239–244, 263, 273, 290n9, 304n88

confessional poetry, 81

contradictionSee also paradox, 41–42, 56, 129n4, 139–141n4, 254, 285, 298, 329–330, 338, 342, 344

Crane, R. S., 259

Dasenbrock, Reed Way, 131n4, 137n4, 139–140n4, 142n4

Davidson, DonaldSee also prior theories; passing theories, 100, 112, 131n4, 137–139n4, 149n11, 152n18, 155n23

deconstruction, xi–xiii, xviin1, 37, 162n28, 238, 244, 266–269, 271, 278, 281, 283–284, 306n109, 375

del Valle-Inclán, Ramón, 184–186, 196n13

delay, xvi, 35–38, 48, 58, 65, 67, 73, 83n2, 191, 221

de Man, Paul, 53, 86n14, 90–91n30, 94–95n47, 124, 190, 227n10, 267, 315, 325, 336, 343, 349–351, 375n44, 375n51