1: Introduction and Argument; 1: Eliot and Pound: Dissociations of Sensibility and Power; 2: Dissociations, Natural and Supernatural; 3: “The Silhouette of Man”; 4: Purgatory and Apocalypse; 5: A Problem of Order; 6: The Old Sublime; 7: The Vortex of Art; 8: Esthetic Politics; 9: Prejudice and Abstraction; 2: Stevens and Williams: The Source of Poetry; 10: “A Confidence in the World”; 11: “A Malady of the Quotidian”; 12: The Necessary Angel of Reality; 13: The Imagination as Value; 14: The Dehumanization of Art; 15: “The City as a Man”; 16: “A Peculiar Majesty”; 17: The Sign and Presence of the Human; 3: Poetry and Politics; 18: Cultural and Humanist Poetics; 19: Poetry, Culture, and Politics