| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Significance of the Thesis | 第11页 |
| ·Basic Methodology Adopted in This Paper | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objective of This Paper | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of This Paper | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Influence and Clinamon | 第14-20页 |
| ·Status of Williams Carlos Williams | 第14-15页 |
| ·Poetic Career of William Carlos Williams | 第15-16页 |
| ·Two Important Pioneers of Williams: Keats and Whitma and Their Influences | 第16-20页 |
| ·Introduction of The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry Advanced by Harold Bloom | 第16-19页 |
| ·Two Important Precursors of Williams: Keats and Whitman | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Romanticism in Williams’early days | 第20-26页 |
| ·Influence of His Father | 第20页 |
| ·Influence of Keats | 第20-24页 |
| ·Poems Published in 1909 | 第21-22页 |
| ·His Unpublished Long Poem Philip and Oradie | 第22-24页 |
| ·Denial of Keatsian Romanticism | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 4 Transformation from Romanticism to Localism | 第26-61页 |
| ·A New Path for Williams | 第26-28页 |
| ·Introduction of Whitman | 第28-35页 |
| ·Whitman’s Life | 第28-30页 |
| ·Whitman’s Poetry: Another Peak after Romanticism and a Breakthrough in Poetry | 第30-34页 |
| ·Historical Background of Whitman’s Poetry | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ardent Pursuit for Democracy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Formal Innovation in Poetry | 第33-34页 |
| ·Whitman: Forerunner of the Modern Poets | 第34-35页 |
| ·Whitman: Poetical Father for Williams | 第35-61页 |
| ·The Wanderers, Deliberate Imitation of Whitman | 第37-41页 |
| ·Spring and All: Clinamon in Formal Innovation | 第41-51页 |
| ·Swerve in the Direction of Williams’Poetry | 第41-45页 |
| ·Innovative Pursuit for New Form | 第45-49页 |
| ·Emphasizing on the Importance of Imagination | 第49-51页 |
| ·Period Far away from Whitman | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Return to the Father | 第52-61页 |
| Chapter 5 Recreation of Whitman | 第61-71页 |
| ·A Modern Democrat | 第61-66页 |
| ·A Modern Localist | 第66-71页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-75页 |
