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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreward by Lawrence O. Christensen
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ix
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Preface
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xiii
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Part One The Shaping Years
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Persona non grata
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3
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A Boy in Kerry Patch
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11
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3.
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Literati in the City Room
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23
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The Decadence--From Oscar Wilde to an "American Beaudelaire"
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35
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The Founding of The Mirror
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47
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Toward Naturalism
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62
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8.
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Streetcars and Corruption
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92
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9.
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At the Fair
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104
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10.
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Roosevelt and the Free Press
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114
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Theodore Dreiser
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120
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Part Three The Mirror and the Poets
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Real Women and Love Lyrics
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135
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13.
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Three Critics in Search of an Art
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150
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Ezra Pound, Poet in Exile
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162
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15.
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Poets in the Market
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168
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Vachel Lindsay, Poet on Native Ground
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177
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17.
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Crossing Spoon River
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193
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The War of the Imagists and Their Antagonists
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217
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Attack from the Rear
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226
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Part Four The After-Image
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20.
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War and Reaction
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245
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21.
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Dreiser and Harris Merton Lyon
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255
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22.
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Poets and Politics: da capo al fine
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265
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Last Reflections
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279
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Abbreviations Used in Bibliography and Notes
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296
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Selected Bibliography
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297
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Notes
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311
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Index
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343
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