This text is an exploration of Romantic poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound, Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, and Williams, from a Thomistic perspective. The author is particularly interested in the intellect and its relation to reality, intuition and rational thought.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Getting Beyond the Cartesian Bubble Chapter 2 Sign: The Fruit of Intellect Chapter 3 The Mystery of Fathering Forth Chapter 4 The Poet and Natural Light Chapter 5 The Wisdom of Leisure Chapter 6 The Authority of Voice in the Sign Chapter 7 The Sins of the Fathers, the Virtues of Grandfathers Chapter 8 The Violence and Violations of Attribution Chapter 9 A "Something" Beyond Subjective Attribution Chapter 10 The Habit of Heresy Chapter 11 Dilemma in Likeness and Unlikeness Chapter 12 Intellect's First Act: In the Beginning Was Love Chapter 13 Intellectual Error: Sin Secularized Chapter 14 Image's Struggle with the Real Thing Chapter 15 The Image as Node, the Poet as Conjurer Chapter 16 The Shock of Sepulchral Verse on the Cauldron of Chaos Chapter 17 The Progress of Doubt to Habit Chapter 18 Grandeur's Charge Against Skeptical Denial Chapter 19 Growing Accustomed to Flowering Wholeness Chapter 20 Concept: The Lonely Tenor of Our Intellectual Way Chapter 21 Our Lot Crawling Between Dry Ribs, to Keep Our Metaphysics Warm Chapter 22 Endnotes Chapter 23 Index