Secular lyric: the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

The secularization of the lyric: the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd

Poe's posthumanism: melancholy and the music of modernity

Poe and the origins of modern poetry: tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss

Whitman's poetics and death: the poet, metonymy, and the crowd

Whitman and democracy: the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death

The poet as lyric reader

Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.

The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd

Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity

Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss

Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd

Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death

The poet as lyric reader

Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.