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Contents List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 PART ONE The Portrait Poem to 1912 1. Portraiture in the Rossetti Circle: Window, Object, or Mirror 17 2. Ezra Pound: Portraiture and Originality 48 3. T. S. Eliot: Getting Out of the Picture 76 PART TWO Modulations 1912 to 1922 4. Contraction: From Picture Sonnet to Epigram 113 5. Expansion: Ezra Pound and Avant-Garde Portraiture 144 6. Pastoral Mode: William Carlos Williams and Nativist Portraiture 183 Coda: Rossetti and E. E. Cummings 213 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 245 Index 253 ...

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