Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-167) and index.
Preface: The Detection and Invention of "Unsuspected Literatures" -- 1. The Poetics of Presence in Literary Reception -- 2. Whitman as the American Homer -- 3. Dickinson: Reading the "Supposed Person" -- 4. Marianne Moore: The Porcelain Garden -- 5. Constraint and Recuperation in the Early Reception of Elizabeth Bishop -- Conclusion: The Continuing Presence of Dickinson