Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The form of history and the history of form
  • The economies of Walden
  • "Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son"
  • Henry James's prefaces, or the story of the stories
  • Henry Adams, connoisseur of chaos
  • Two poets: Paterson: notes toward an American revolution ; Frank O'Hara and the poetics of love
  • Coda, new life in a new world.