Foreword: The De/Composer / Donald Hall
Abstract and General vs. Concrete and Specific
"Leda and the Swan" / William Butler Yeats
"Dream Song #22, 'Of 1826'" / John Berryman
"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" / Wallace Stevens
"Globe" / Elizabeth Spires
"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" / Richard Eberhart
"The Groundhog" / Richard Eberhart
"Still to Be Neat" / Ben Jonson
"Sonnet #129, 'The expense of spirit ... '" / William Shakespeare
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" / Walt Whitman
"The Man in the Dead Machine" / Donald Hall
"I Know a Man" / Robert Creeley
"Eros Turannos" / Edwin Arlington Robinson
"The Miller's Wife" / Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Egyptian Dancer at Shubra" / Bernard Spencer
"A Late Aubade" / Richard Wilbur
"Janet Waking" / John Crowe Ransom
"Piazza Piece" / John Crowe Ransom
"Sonnet #73, 'That time of year thou mayst ... '" / William Shakespeare
"Sailing to Byzantium" / William Butler Yeats
"A Supermarket in California" / Allen Ginsberg
"Nantucket" / William Carlos Williams
"Transformations" / Thomas Hardy
"Afterwards" / Thomas Hardy
"The Man He Killed" / Thomas Hardy
"Traveling through the Dark" / William Stafford
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" / Emily Dickinson
"If I Shouldn't Be Alive" / Emily Dickinson
"The Oxen" / Thomas Hardy
"Drummer Hodge" / Thomas Hardy.
