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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Level of Words 1: The RhapsodicFallacy 2: Three Essays on Confession I: Pure Feeling II: Pure Pain III:Applied Poetry 3: A New Sweetness: Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop 4:The Romance of the Perceptual: The Legacy of Wallace Stevens 5: TheSignatures of Things: On Howard Nemerov 6: Deeper Than Declared: On SeamusHeaney 7: "Irreference": On John Ashbery 8: The Cure of Poetry Conclusion:The Poet's Calling: On a New Model of Literary Apprenticeship Notes Index