Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
Prologue: The Moon through the Trees -- I. Prosody as Rhythmic Cognition -- II. The Scansion of the English Meters -- III. Modern Poetry in the Metrical Tradition -- IV. Nineteenth-Century Precursors -- V. Imagism and Visual Prosody -- VI. "The Celebrated Metric" of Ezra Pound -- VII. T. S. Eliot and the Music of Poetry -- VIII. Stevens, Frost, and Jeffers: Three Who Stayed Home; Hart Crane: One Who Found No Home -- IX. Auden and After -- X. Epilogue: New Poets