list of illustrations
acknowledgements
introduction
part one: the writer and his sethng
chronological table
1 biographical background-
a man on whom the sun has gone down’
‘born in a half savage country’
‘this damn’d profession of writing’
‘drinking the tone of things’
‘full impetus of vehement will’
‘abstract yatter’
‘a blown husk that is finished’
2 literary, cultural and political background
wearing masks
making it new: the ‘isms’ of modernism
the chinese connection: language, poetry, philosophy
economic politics
sexual politics
part two: critical survey
personae
imagism in practice
cathay
homage to sextus propertius
hugh selwyn mauberley
the cantos
the nature of the cantos
the sections of the cantos
the language of the cantos
aspects of the cantos ~
conclusion
contents
part three: reference section
brief biographies
gazetteer
bibliography
further reading
index