Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prefatory Notes -- Introduction: The Estrangement of Poet and Reader -- Chapter 1: Romanticism and Politics: Perspectives and Contexts -- Chapter 2: Selfless Reliance: Emerson's Psychology...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prefatory Notes -- Introduction: The Estrangement of Poet and Reader -- Chapter 1: Romanticism and Politics: Perspectives and Contexts -- Chapter 2: Selfless Reliance: Emerson's Psychology of Power -- Chapter 3: Pound's Public Mysticism- and Search for an Audience -- Chapter 4: Infinity and Community in Emerson and Pound -- Chapter 5: The Poem as Social Contract: Notes on the School of Pound -- Chapter 6: The "New Liberalism" of Williams and Olson -- Afterword: Wisdom and Community -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index.