Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 Ancient Chinese Poetics:the Aesthetic Pattern and the World 15
1.1 Liu Xie[Hsieh]'s The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 17
1.2 Wang Guowei's Poetic Remarks in the Human World 26
CHAPTER 2 New England Tradition:Puritan Typology and Transcendental Symbols 35
2.1 Jonathan Edwards's Typological View of Things 36
2.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson's Symbolic View of Things 44
CHAPTER 3 Dickinson's Heresy:"the Unfurnished Eyes"and the"Anti-Visionary"Poet 54
3.1 The"Unfurnished Eyes" 55
3.2 The Anti-Visionary Poet 69
CHAPTER 4 Dickinson and Du Fu:Worlds of Pain and Peace in Reverence 86
4.1 "Reverence for Life" 86
4.2 The Worlds of Pain and Peace 99
Conclusion:Voice at Home and Abroad 114
Bibliography 122