The New Apologists
for Poetry.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press;
London: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Contents:
Preface:vii-x.
Introductory:3-28.
Section I. The Creative Process: Science, Poetry, and the Imagination:30-110.
- T.E.Hulme: Classicism and the Imagination:31-45.
- T.S. Eliot: Expression and
Impersonality:46-56.
- I.A. Richards: Neurological and Poetic Organization:57-63.
- The Requirements of an Organic Theory of Poetic Creation:64-76.
- The Organic Theory: Support and Defection:77-89.
- The Uniqueness of the Poetic
Imagination:90-110.
Section II. The Aesthetic Object: Science, Poetry, and Language:111-163.
- I.A. Richards: Some Tools for an Organic Criticism:113-122.
- The Transformation of Richards: A Contextual Theory of the Aesthetic
Object:
123-139.
- The Contextual Theory: Further Qualifications and
Counter-Qualifications:140-155.
- A Note on the Objectivity of Value:156-163.
Section III. The Function of Poetry: Science, Poetry, and Cognition:165-201.
- Some Older Theories about Poetry and Truth:167-181.
- Some Conditions for an Apology:182-201.