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Book Synopsis"For the sake of contraption (like Frost) and of character (like Robinson), John Burt will do a great deal, and his scope and scansion require a great deal, for his theme is nothing less than the reinvention of heroism (King Mark, Mary of Nazareth, St. Francis, Paolo and Francesca, Ariadne) and the invention of a new heroics (Woodrow Wilson, Willar
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*The Funeral Day, pg. 3*Three Songs from Paintings, pg. 4*Songs of Innocence, pg. 7*Ballet Academy, pg. 8*Ariadne, pg. 9*Paolo and Francesca, pg. 11*Waiting for Birds, pg. 12*On the Will to Believe, pg. 13*Learning the Table, pg. 14*Teratocarcinoma, pg. 15*The Homecoming of Bran, pg. 16*King Mark's Dream, pg. 18*From the Diary of Willard Gibbs, pg. 19*Photograph from Luzon, 1899, pg. 21*His Kind-Hearted Woman, pg. 23*Leonce Pontellier, pg. 25*Rich Blind Minotaur Led by a Girl, pg. 43*Winter: Hunters in Snow, pg. 44*In the Subway, pg. 45*After the Thunderstorm, pg. 46*The Zeppelin Watchers, pg. 51*Robert Falcon Scott Enters Paradise, pg. 53*The Plague-Maiden, pg. 54*Andrew Ramsay at the Somme, pg. 56*Plains of Peace, pg. 57*Sonnets for Mary of Nazareth, pg. 66*Nocturne, pg. 69*St. Francis and the Wolf, pg. 70*Trucks on a Hill in Winter, pg. 72*Thomaston Dam, pg. 73*Notes, pg. 75
