• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations • Introduction • Unchanging Myth
• Four Changes • “Burglar! Banker – Father!”: Renaming God through Satire • Burglar! Banker – Father! • My Little Force Explodes
• Mastering the Master: Appropriations of Crisis Conversion in the Poems of 1863 • The Old Words Are Numb • Mastering the Master
• The Adventure of Self: Transforming Calvinism and Emerson’s Transcendentalism • Undoing Calvinism • The World beyond Emerson • “They Shut Me up in Prose”: Late Letter-Poems • A Disruptive Discovery • Erasing the Line between Poetry and Prose • The Question of Publication • Editors • From Fascicles to Letters, from Fixed to Flux • A Letter Like Immortality • The Artist of the Beautiful, a Possibility • Notes • Works Cited • Index of First Lines • Subject Index