Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index
Part I: The mythic mode as symbolic discourse -- Chapter 1: Myths of creation and the meaning-making mind -- Chapter 2: The mythic-symbolic: path to wholeness -- Chapter 3: Mythic return, the mind, and the hermeneutic circle -- Part II: The mythic mode in poetic practice -- Chapter 4: Arthur Rimbaud: Le Monde Recréé -- Chapter 5: Georg Trakl: the poetic search for psychic unity -- Chapter 6: Hart crane: a new consciousness of "the whole" -- Chapter 7: Charles Olson: mythopoesis and the poetics of orality