Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 Ancient Chinese Poetics: the Aesthetic Pattern and the World 15
1.1 Liu Xie [ Hsieh ] ''s The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 17
1.2 Wang Guowei''s Poetic Remarks in the Human World 26
CHAPTER 2 New England Tradition: Puritan Typology and Transcendental Symbols 35
2.1 Jonathan Edwards''s Typological View of Things 36
2.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson''s Symbolic View of Things 44
CHAPTER 3 Dickinson''s Heresy: "the Unfurnished Eyes" and the "Anti-Visionary" Poet 54
3.1 The "Unfurnished Eyes" 55
3.2 The Anti-Visionary Poet 69
CHAPTER 4 Dickinson and Du Fu: Worlds of Pain and Peace in Reverence 86
4.1 "Reverence for Life" 86
4.2 The Worlds of Pain and Peace 99
Conclusion: Voice at Home and Abroad 114
Bibliography 122