Introduction

Editorial Procedures

1. 1890s-1950: "Hunter James"

2. 1903: "The Hermits"

3. 1903-1910: "All these different psycological experiments"

4. 1909-1950: "If I had prayed every day you don't see how I could help calling myself a Utopian"

5. 1910-1955: "Submission to the law of the machine"

6. 1911: "What you expect to find for a teacher in psychology"

7. 1912: "Bring all under the influence of the great books as under a spell"

8. 1912-1915: "A Place Apart"

9. 1913-1917: "Beggars in England"

10. 1916-1918: "All my thoughts of every thing"

11. 1916-1919: "Two Poets"

12. 1918-1921: "A time when nothing, neither religion nor patriotism comes to an apex"

13. 1919: "The Copperhead"

14. 1920-1930: "The furthest two things can be away from each other"

15. 1923-1924: "Learn lives of poet"

16. 1924: "I don't see what you have to complain of"

17. 1926-1930: "You and I"

18. 1926-1928: "Difference between meter and rhythm"

19. 1928: "I learned to laugh when I was young"

20. 1929: "These are not monologues but my part in a conversation"

21. 1930-1940: "Thick skinned: Thick headed"

22. 1930-1940: "True humility is a kind of carelessness"

23. 1935-1951: "True humility lies in suffering"

24. 1935: "Curiously Enough--as a connection"

25. 1935: "America and The Plot"

26. 1935: "Since surely good is evil's better half"

27. 1936: "The question for the original"

28. 1936-1939: "Having Learned to Read"

29. 1937-1942: "Democracy"

30. 1937: "Alcie That Socratic boy"

31. 1937-1955: "Three of those evils parsed in half an hour"

32. 1940-1950: "Leila.: What have you brought him into the house for?"

33. 1940: "Prophetic"

34. 1950: "What is your attitude toward having robbed the Indians of the American Continent?

35. 1951-1952: "Pertinax"

36. 1950-1955: "He and it would satisfy something in him"

37. 1950-1955: "If his own intuitions were correct"

38. 1950-1951: "There is a sense shadow always on success"

39. 1950-1962 "If we are too much given to reflect"

40. 1950-1962: "I wont be talked to by a woman, tell her"

41. 1960-1962: "Dedication to___ of 'The Gift Outright'"

42. Undated: "The more trouble that can be shown to have with a poem"

43. Undated: "First Answerability Divine Right"

44. Undated: "Last Refinement of Subject Matter Voice Imagination Voice as Subject Matter"

45. Undated: "Sentences may have the greatest monotony to the eye"

46. Undated: "Many speak as if it was a reproach to the Puritans"

47. Undated Loose Notebook Pages: "All thoughts all passions all delights"

48. Undated: "Nothing more composing as composition"

49. Undated: "One Favored Acorn"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Robert Faggen is Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College.

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