The New Apologists for Poetry

• 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.
  

  1. T.E.Hulme: Classicism and the Imagination:31-45.
     
  2. T.S. Eliot: Expression and Impersonality:46-56.
     
  3. I.A. Richards: Neurological and Poetic Organization:57-63.
     
  4. The Requirements of an Organic Theory of Poetic Creation:64-76.
     
  5. The Organic Theory: Support and Defection:77-89.
     
  6. The Uniqueness of the Poetic Imagination:90-110.
     Section II. The Aesthetic Object: Science, Poetry, and Language:111-163.
     
  7. I.A. Richards: Some Tools for an Organic Criticism:113-122.
     
  8. The Transformation of Richards: A Contextual Theory of the Aesthetic Object: 123-139.
     
  9. The Contextual Theory: Further Qualifications and Counter-Qualifications:140-155.
     
  10. A Note on the Objectivity of Value:156-163.
      Section III. The Function of Poetry: Science, Poetry, and Cognition:165-201.
      
  11. Some Older Theories about Poetry and Truth:167-181.
      
  12. Some Conditions for an Apology:182-201.
      

• Paperback reprint. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Midland Book, 1963.

• Reprinted. Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.