Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Ancient Chinese Poetics:the Aesthetic Pattern and the World

1.1 Liu Xie[Hsieh]'s The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

1.2 Wang Guowei's Poetic Remarks in the Human World

CHAPTER 2 New England Tradition:Puritan Typology and Transcendental Symbols

2.1 Jonathan Edwards's Typological View of Things

2.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson's Symbolic View of Things

CHAPTER 3 Dickinson's Heresy:"the Unfurnished Eyes"and the"Anti-Visionary"Poet

3.1 The"Unfurnished Eyes"

3.2 The Anti-Visionary Poet

CHAPTER 4 Dickinson and Du Fu:Worlds of Pain and Peace in Reverence

4.1 "Reverence for Life"

4.2 The Worlds of Pain and Peace

Conclusion:Voice at Home and Abroad

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