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		A Note on the Text		10
		Introduction: Writing into the Dark		11
		from A Retrospect by Ezra Pound		17
		from A General Introduction for my Work by W. B. Yeats		26
		Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot		31
		from Observations on Poetry 1922-1925 by Robert Graves		39
		The Figure a Poem Makes by Robert Frost		44
		General Aims and Theories by Hart Crane		47
		Foreword from is 5 by E. E. Cummings		52
		Explaining 'A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose' by Gertrude Stein		54
		from Adagia by Wallace Stevens		56
		from The Virgin and the Dynamo by W. H. Auden		67
		A Statement by Louis MacNeice		72
		from A Theory of Scots Letters by Hugh MacDiarmid		74
		The Poet's Point of View by Basil Bunting		80
		On Measure - Statement For Cid Corman by William Carlos Williams		83
		A Statement For Poetry by Louis Zukofsky		87
		from Projective Verse by Charles Olson		92
		To Define by Robert Creeley		100
		'I believe poets are instruments' by Denise Levertov		102
		'I tend to write in a patterned arrangement' by Marianne Moore		103
		Letter to Miss Pierson by Elizabeth Bishop		104
		On 'Skunk Hour' by Robert Lowell		106
		Answers to Questions by Randall Jarrell		110
		'Poetry is like a man' by Keith Douglas		113
		from Notes on the Art of Poetry by Dylan Thomas		115
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