Introduction Part 1: Philosophy Essay I - 'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting': Scepticism, System and Poetry Essay II - A 'voice from out the Wilderness': Cain and Philosophical Poetry Part 2: Poetics Essay III - The need for 'all this': Johnson, Bowles and the Forms of Prose Essay IV - 'I wish to do as much by Poesy': Amidst a Byronic Poetics Part 3: Outlines Essay V - The Flower and the Gem: Narrative Form and the Traces of Eden Essay VI - 'Glory's dream Unriddled': Politics and the Forms of War Coda: 'In Short' Bibliography Index
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