Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.
I. The Cantos as Palingenesis. 1. The Cantos as Palingenesis. 2. Poetry as Revelation. 3. "The Celestial Tradition" -- II. The Occult Tradition. 1. "The Rising Psychic Tide" 2. A History of the "Occult Tradition" -- III. Pound's Occult Education. 1. American Beginnings: Katherine Ruth Heyman and H.D. 2. Pound's Catechesis in London (1): Yeats and the Shakespears. 3. Pound's Catechesis in London (2): Upward and Orage. 4. "Echoes from the Gnosis": G.R.S. Mead and Pound -- IV. Palingenesis: Katabasis / Dromena / Epopteia. 1. Palingenesis: Katabasis / Dromena / Epopteia. 2. "The Cave of Nerea": Canto 17. 3. "Never with this Religion / Will You Make Men of the Greeks": Canto 23. 4. "Yet Must Thou Sail after knowledge": The Katabasis after Gnosis in Canto 47 -- V. "The Subtle Body": Cantos 90 and 91. 1. "Out of Erebus": Canto 90. 2. "The Subtle Body": Canto 91.