Sapphics, 199, 228, 231, 235–237

Skeltonics, 189, 199, 208–219, 223, 241

Lords of Limit, 2

MacNeice, Louis, 88, 130, 311, 324, 337

madrigal, 152

Malcolm X, 182

Maritain, Jacques, 51, 88, 318

Marlowe, Christopher, 173

Marvell, Andrew, 22, 44

Marx, Karl, 291

Marxist (ideology), 7, 9

McLuhan, Marshall, 41

Mendelson, Edward, v, xi–xii, 14, 24, 27–28, 86, 91, 97, 113, 143, 249–250, 259, 262, 267, 297–299, 302, 305–306, 316, 328, 331

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare), 34

metre, 4, 11, 38, 60, 72, 82, 134, 168, 173, 183–184, 258, 331

meter, 5, 61, 95, 134, 152, 162, 164–165, 170, 172, 177, 183–184, 186–188, 209, 217, 230, 234, 246

Milton, John, 123, 126, 132, 134, 173, 183, 185–186, 190, 232, 258, 328

Moore, Marianne, 156, 158–160, 166, 193, 204, 244, 255, 317

myth, ix, 3, 6, 18–20, 29, 48, 72, 79, 110–111, 131, 141–142, 231, 286–287, 291–292, 295, 325

near-rhyme, 175–176

Nelson, Gerald, 10, 14, 272, 301, 331

Nero (emperor of Rome), 70

New Critics, 22, 74

New York Times, 116, 158, 183

Newdigate Prize, 52

Newman, Michael, xii, 31, 85, 87–90, 122, 144, 156–157, 191, 193, 327, 337

Of the Festivity (Dickey), 49, 88–89, 114, 196, 297, 310

Ogresee also “The Ogre”, “Song of the Ogres”, and “August 1968”, 280

Open House (Roethke), 44, 87–88, 90, 127, 143–145, 316

Original Sin, 266

ottava rima, 6, 36

Oxford, 4, 8, 21–22, 41, 45, 49, 52, 61, 65, 79–80, 95

Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 116

parable, 25–26, 62–65, 72, 106, 279, 296, 334

Partridge, A. C., 139, 262, 297, 332

Peckham, Morse, 58, 89

Pentecost, 140–142, 280

physics, 42, 136, 140, 247–248, 250–253

picked word, 122, 124, 138

Planck, Max, 136, 252–253

Poems and New Poems (Bogan), 46

Pope, Alexander, 6, 18, 27, 35–37, 74, 86–87, 103, 190–191, 290, 300, 320

post-Romantic, 18, 268

Pound, Ezra, 44–45, 180–181, 189, 255, 257, 319

Principle of Uncertainty, 136–137