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Acknowledgements; Introduction, or the thing at hand; 1. Toward ananthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species; 2. Dorustics think? Wordworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a 'human diction'; 3.Literate species: populations, 'humanities', and the specific failure ofliterature in Frankenstein; 4. The 'arithmetic of futurity': poetry,population, and the structure of the future; 5. Dead poets and other romanticpopulations: immortality and its discontents; Epilogue, or Immortalityinterminable: the use of poetry for life; Notes; Bibliography; Index.