Poetry and Contemplation : A New Preface to Poetics (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Poetic experience: the sphere of poetics; 2. Distractions; 3. Unconscious experience; 4. The wholeness of experience; 5. Wholeness and objective theories; 6. The growth of experience; 7. The continuity of experience; 8. Analysis of experience; 9. Contemplative experience: the aesthetic attitude; 10. Objective experiences; 11. Poetic and ordinary experience: the difference; 12. Poetic and ordinary experience: the connection; 13. Creation of experience: definition of a poet; 14. Reality and facts of mind; 15. Poetic emotions; 16. The poet and society; Index.