Metaphysical Shadows (eBook)

Acknowledgements
A Note to the Reader
Metaphysical Shadows: An Introduction
Part I. Varieties of Shadows
Chapter One: Echo and Allusion: "The Extasie" Behind Seamus Heaney's "Chanson d'Aventure"
Chapter Two: The Answer Poem: Anne Donne on the Isle of Wight
Chapter Three: Shared Subjects: Andrew Marvell, Archibald MacLeish, and Brendan Kennelly
Chapter Four: Modal Resemblances: "Metaphysical," "Meditative," and the Poetry of Donne, W. B. Yeats, and Ronald Johnson
Part II. Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Shadows
Chapter Five: What Did Suffice: Scintillas of Vaughan in the Poetry of Anne Cluysenaar
Chapter Six: Donne, Heaney, and the Boldness of Love
Chapter Seven: The Depth of Herbert's Voiceprint in the Poetry of Alfred Corn
Chapter Eight: Verbal Relish in the Poetry of Donne and Kimberly Johnson
Chapter Nine: The Tradition and the Individual Talent: Jericho Brown and the Donnean Note
Shadow Instruction: An Afterward
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author