Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. THE FORMATIVE YEARS -- II. ASPIRATION AND ITS ANALOGUES -- III. THE QUESTER AND THE QUEEN -- IV. DEVOTIONAL FORM AND THE CONSTANT OCCASION FOR IRONY -- V. MOTION, REST, AND METAMORPHOSIS -- VI. AUDIBLE CORRELATIVES OF EMOTIONAL TENSION -- VII. NEW WAYS OF ARTICULATING THE WORLD -- VIII. THE EARLY ACHIEVEMENT -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX OF FIRST LINES -- GENERAL INDEX