Bloom, Robert, 140–143, 146, 199–200, 216, 257, 297–298, 334

blues, 152

Bogan, Louise, 46–51, 72

Bogardus, Edgar, 46, 73, 88, 201, 257, 309

Born, Max, 136, 253

Bridges, Robert, 159, 171, 232, 258, 328

Bronowski, Jacob, 136, 259, 328

Brooks, Cleanth, 117, 129, 145, 335

Byer, James, 7, 13, 89, 91, 328

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 6, 35–37, 86, 125, 152, 190, 192, 307, 311

Campion, Thomas, 183

Carroll, Lewis (Through the Looking Glass), 277, 301

Cavalcanti, Guido, 44, 180–181

ceremony, 31

A Change of World (Adrienne Rich), 38, 86, 114, 297, 308

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 178

China, 45, 183

Chinese Cultural Revolution, 275

choriamb, 53, 245–246

Christianity, 236, 267, 273, 291, 298, 307

civil rights (movement), 71, 182–183

Civil Rights Act, 182

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 172

Cocteau, Jean, 51–52, 88, 318–319

Cold War, 275

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 125

Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), 34–35, 86, 321

Crucifixion, 67–68

dactyl, 160, 179, 213, 234, 246, 258

Daiches, David, 135, 259, 315

Dante (Alighieri), 33, 88–89, 123, 318

Davenport-Hines, Richard, 262, 297, 329

Deconstruction, 50, 57, 63, 146

democracy, 83–84, 93, 120, 314

Derrida, Jacques, 63

Desmond, William, 255, 259, 329

Deutsch, Babette, 179, 195, 329

Dickey, William, 49, 88, 114, 196, 297, 310

Dickinson, Emily, 44, 47

diction, 6, 12, 16, 24, 50–51, 61, 65, 67, 87, 97, 99, 101–102, 104–106, 111–113, 115–146, 151, 156, 190, 197, 199, 279, 292, 315

dimeter, 163, 192, 210, 212, 216, 218–219, 221, 224, 229–230, 233, 236

discipline, 2, 15, 17, 31, 51–52, 95, 99, 121, 148, 155–156, 258, 284, 289, 296

Don Juan (Byron), 36

Dryden, John, 103, 114, 290, 312

Dunbar, William, 37–38, 86, 313

The Dynasts (Hardy), 71

Eliot, T. S., 44, 78, 115, 124, 181, 189, 255, 268, 318

Elizabethans, 123, 175

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 72

Emig, Rainer, 267, 298

enjambment, 169, 203, 212

Enlightenment, English, 18, 289

entropy, 42, 247, 252, 258, 327

ethics, 31, 82, 247