Introduction 1
Chapter One Poetry:The Measure of the Poet's Own Phenomenality 17
1.1 The Measure of the Poet's Own Phenomenality:Contexts and Meaning 18
1.1.1 Contexts 18
1.1.2 Meaning 22
1.2 The Measure of the Poet's Own Phenomenality as Reflected in Creeley's Poetry 28
1.3 A Contemporary Version of Negative Capability 40
1.3.1 Definition 42
1.3.2 Similarities 44
1.3.3 Differences 48
Chapter Two Form:An Extension of Content 58
2.1 A Brief Survey of the Relation Between Form and Content 58
2.2 Creeley's Poetics of Form and the Poetics of Projective Verse 61
2.2.1 Creeley's Poetics of Form 61
2.2.2 Creeley's Poetics of Form as Related to the Poetics of Projective Verse 65
2.3 A Demonstration of Creeley's Poetics of Form—"Le Fou" 70
2.4 Postmodernity of Creeley's Poetics of Form 80
2.5 Inconsistency between Creeley's Theory and Practice 85
Chapter Three Words:Self-contained Things 101
3.1 Indications of Words' Thingness in Creeley's Poetry 103
3.1.1 Problematized Language-reality Nexus 105
3.1.2 Words Doing Things 109
3.1.3 Weakened Subjectivity 113
3.1.4 Highlighted Physical Features of Language 118
3.2 Approach to Words' Thingness:Literality Instead of Objectivity 123
3.3 Suspicious Elements in Creeley's Poetics of Language 127
3.4 A Genealogy of Creeley's Poetics of Language 130
3.4.1 Sources 131
3.4.2 Influence 142
Chapter Four Emotion:A Primary Measure for Poetry 151
4.1 Emotion and Poetry 151
4.2 Emotion and Creeley's Poetry 158
4.3 Emotion as Related to the Other Three Measures 175
4.4 Creeley's Mode of Turning Out Emotion as Distinguished from Wordsworth's and Lowell's 188
4.4.1 Creeley and Wordsworth:Betraying vs Expressing 189
4.4.2 Creeley and Lowell:Exact vs General 196
Conclusion 203
Works Cited 210
Appendix:Biographical Chronology of Robert Creeley 221
后记 231