| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-23页 |
| Chapter One Poetry: The Measure of the Poet’s Own Phenomenality | 第23-56页 |
| ·The Measure of the Poet’s Own Phenomenality: Contexts and Meaning | 第24-31页 |
| ·Contexts | 第24-26页 |
| ·Meaning | 第26-31页 |
| ·The Measure of the Poet’s Own Phenomenality as Reflected in Creeley’s Poetry | 第31-41页 |
| ·A Contemporary Version of Negative Capability | 第41-56页 |
| ·Definition | 第43-44页 |
| ·Similarities | 第44-47页 |
| ·Differences | 第47-56页 |
| Chapter Two Form: An Extension of Content | 第56-89页 |
| ·A Brief Survey of the Relation Between Form and Content | 第56-58页 |
| ·Creeley’s Poetics of Form and the Poetics of Projective Verse | 第58-65页 |
| ·Creeley’s Poetics of Form | 第58-61页 |
| ·Creeley’s Poetics of Form as Related to the Poetics of Projective Verse | 第61-65页 |
| ·A Demonstration of Creeley’s Poetics of Form -- “Le Fou” | 第65-73页 |
| ·Postmodernity of Creeley’s Poetics of Form | 第73-76页 |
| ·Inconsistency Between Creeley’s Theory and Practice | 第76-89页 |
| Chapter Three Words: Self-contained Things | 第89-129页 |
| ·Indications of Words’ Thingness in Creeley’s Poetry | 第90-106页 |
| ·Problematized Language-reality Nexus | 第92-95页 |
| ·Words Doing Things | 第95-98页 |
| ·Weakened Subjectivity | 第98-103页 |
| ·Highlighted Physical Features of Language | 第103-106页 |
| ·Approach to Words’ Thingness: Literality Instead of Objectivity | 第106-110页 |
| ·Suspicious Elements in Creeley’s Poetics of Language | 第110-112页 |
| ·A Genealogy of Creeley’s Poetics of Language | 第112-129页 |
| ·Sources | 第113-122页 |
| ·Influence | 第122-129页 |
| Chapter Four Emotion: A Primary Measure for Poetry | 第129-171页 |
| ·Emotion and Poetry | 第129-134页 |
| ·Emotion and Creeley’s Poetry | 第134-148页 |
| ·Emotion as Related to the Other Three Measures | 第148-159页 |
| ·Creeley’s Mode of Turning out Emotion as Distinguished from Wordsworth’s and Lowell’s | 第159-171页 |
| ·Creeley and Wordsworth: Betraying vs Expressing | 第159-165页 |
| ·Creeley and Lowell: Exact vs General | 第165-171页 |
| Conclusion | 第171-176页 |
| Works Cited | 第176-185页 |
| Appendix: Biographical Chronology of Robert Creeley | 第185-193页 |
