profane (beings and events), 65–66, 79–80

psychodrama, 279, 296, 302

psychology, 39, 62, 89–90, 136, 145–146, 248–253, 259, 274, 279, 291–292, 307, 313, 330–331

pyhrric, 106

quantitative meter, 184, 196

quantum physics, 136, 140, 252–253

quatrain, 166, 176

Quest Perilous, 2, 11–12, 15–28, 67, 257–258, 278, 295–296

quintain, 65, 244

The Rape of the Lock (Pope), 37

Reichert, John, 25, 28, 297, 337

Replogle, Justin, 97, 113, 200, 257, 271, 298, 300–302, 332

rhyme, 5, 37, 52, 60, 72–73, 101–103, 110–111, 122, 125, 133–134, 151–155, 158–159, 161–163, 165–166, 168–170, 175–177, 180–182, 191–192, 202, 209, 224–225, 246, 262

rhymeless, 64, 101, 103, 105, 147, 159, 161, 172, 182, 202, 209, 225

Rich, Adrienne, 38, 86, 297

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 126, 134, 144–145, 314

Rimbaud, (Jean Nicholas) Arthur, 44, 54

rime royal, 152, 178

Robson, Wallace, 52

Roditi, Edouard, 249

Roethke, Theodore, 44, 46, 87, 127, 143, 316

Romantic, 21, 159, 254, 271, 285, 291

Romantic Iconography, 13, 305

“Romantic or Free? Commencement Address”, 85, 143, 315

“Romanticism and Classicism” (T. E. Hulme), 118, 131, 143

rondeau, 152, 199

Rorty, Richard, 63

Rosen, Aaron, 7, 13, 332

sacred, x, 3, 6, 65–69, 79–81, 84, 122, 149, 155, 293

Salzburg Opera Festival, 57, 98

Sapphics, 199, 228, 231, 235–244, 258

sdrucciolo rhyme, 153, 192

semiliteracy, 119

sestina, 152, 199

Shapiro, Karl, 65, 93, 209, 257–258, 332, 337

Sidney, Philip, Sir, 99, 183

Skelton, John, 99, 103, 107, 109, 112, 114, 123, 134, 144, 178–179, 181, 189, 194–195, 198, 209–210, 227

Skeltonics, 152, 175, 178, 189, 198–199, 208–210, 212–214, 216, 218–219, 223, 225, 227

Smith College, 32

Smithsonian Institution, 81

sonnet, 43, 75, 128, 152, 181, 315

Spain, 45

Spanish Civil War, 45

speakable, 53, 55–57

Spears, Monroe K., xi, 13–14, 97, 113, 192, 298, 301, 333

Spender, Philip, 15, 275

Spender, Stephen, xii, 4, 15, 25, 41, 65, 85, 88–89, 104–105, 256, 261, 333, 337

Spenser, Edmund, 99, 183

Spirit of Modern Poetry, 95