Part 1 A Theory of Discourse; Chapter 1 Discourse as Language; Chapter 2 Discourse as Ideology; Chapter 3 Discourse as Subjectivity; Part 2 English Poetry; Chapter 4 Lambic Pentameter; Chapter 5 The Feudal Ballad; Chapter 6 The Founding Moment; Chapter 7 Transparency as Explicit Ideal; Chapter 8 The Continuities of Romanticism; Chapter 9 The Modernism of Eliot and Pound; Chapter 10 A Future for Poetry;