Figures of capable imagination

1. Coleridge : the anxiety of influence

2. Walter Pater : the intoxication of belatedness

3. Emerson : the self-reliance of American Romanticism

4. The native strain : American Orphism

5. Death and the native strain in American poetry

6. Wallace Stevens : the poems of our climate

7. The new transcendentalism : the visionary strain in Merwin, Ashbery and Ammons

8. Dark and radiant peripheries : Mark Strand and A.R. Ammons

9. John Ashbery : the charity of the hard moments

10. A.R. Ammons : the breaking of the vessels

11. Geoffrey Hill : the survival of strong poetry

12. The sorrows of American-Jewish poetry

13. Nebuchadnezzar's dream : Hollander's The head of the bed.