Poetry, politics, and culture: argument in the work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams

Part 1: Eliot and Pound: dissociations of sensibility and power. Dissociations, natural and supernatural ; "The silhouette of man" ; Purgatory and Apocalypse ; A problem of order ; The old sublime ; The vortex of art ; Esthetic politics ; Prejudice and abstraction

Part 2: Stevens and Williams: the source of poetry. "A confidence in the world" ; "A malady of the Quotidian" ; The necessary angel of reality ; The imagination as value ; The dehumanization of art ; "The city as a man" ; "A peculiar majesty" ; The sign and presence of the human

Part 3: Poetry and politics. Cultural and humanist poetics ; Poetry, culture, and politics

Appendix A. The ethical humanism of Emmanuel Levinas

Appendix B. Bakhtin and the American poets

Appendix C. A note on Ethics and dialogue in the works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandelshtam, and Celan / by Michael Eskin.