Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6 x 9⅜
978-0-8476-9200-2 • Hardback • August 1998 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
Marion Montgomery is professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including the trilogy The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age, as well as many poems, novels, and critical essays.
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
This is a lovely and deeply felt rumination on the human condition by a distinguished poet doing a philosopher's work. Warmly recommended.....
— Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Thisisalovelyand deeply felt rumination onthe human condition by a distinguishedpoet doing a philosopher's work. Warmly recommended.
— Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University