본서는 영미 시를 중세 발라드로부터 르네상스, 형이상학파, 낭만주의, 모더니즘 시에 이르기까지 개괄한다. 대표적인 시인들로 존 밀턴, 존 던, 윌리엄 워즈워스, 제라드 맨리 홉킨스, 매슈 아널드, 에밀리 디킨슨, 월레스 스티븐스 등이 논의되었다.
Foreword 5
Chapter 1 11
Family Psychology Represented in “Edward”
Chapter 2 19
Literary Form and Reality of the Renaissance Poetry
Chapter 3 29
Young Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso”: Poems of the “weary age”
Chapter 4 39
John Donne’s “Air and Angels”: The Play of Signification
Chapter 5 45
The Author and the Reader in the Seventeenth-Century Texts of John Donne and John Milton
Chapter 6 65
Readings of “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” and the Humanities
Chapter 7 77
The Renaissance Poetics: The Romantic Selfhood in W. Wordsworth’s The Prelude and P. B. Shelley’s The Triumph of Life
Chapter 8 113
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s The Wreck of the Deutschland: A Poetic Christology Represented in the Ignatian Meditation
Chapter 9 139
The Best Culture: Matthew Arnold’s Culturology
Chapter 10 153
Emily Dickinson’s Self-Exploitation toward Eternity: A Strategic Poetics
Chapter 11 177
Supreme Fiction in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry
Chapter 12 197
Wallace Stevens’ Canonicity and Textuality: The American Consciousness of Fictionality
Chapter 13 235
A Study of Scholarship
Epilogue 245
Works Cited 247
Index 263
