Quotations from T.S. Eliot's The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, © copyright by T.S. Eliot, published by Harcourt Brace and World, Inc. and used by permission.

Quotations from William Empson's Collected Poems, © copyright by William Empson, published by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. and used by permission.

Quotations from Ezra Pound, Personae, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound, published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, and used by permission.

Quotations from Wallace Stevens' The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and used by permission.

Quotations from Wallace Stevens' Opus Posthumous, copyright © 1957 by Elsie and Holly Stevens, published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., and used by permission.

Quotations from I. A. Richards' The Screens and Other Poems, copyright © by I. A. Richards, published by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., and used by permission.