• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Unchanging Myth
• Four Changes
• “Burglar! Banker – Father!”: Renaming God through Satire
• Burglar! Banker – Father!
• My Little Force Explodes
• Mastering the Master: Appropriations of Crisis Conversion in the Poems of 1863
• The Old Words Are Numb
• Mastering the Master
• The Adventure of Self: Transforming Calvinism and Emerson’s Transcendentalism
• Undoing Calvinism
• The World beyond Emerson
• “They Shut Me up in Prose”: Late Letter-Poems
• A Disruptive Discovery
• Erasing the Line between Poetry and Prose
• The Question of Publication
• Editors
• From Fascicles to Letters, from Fixed to Flux
• A Letter Like Immortality
• The Artist of the Beautiful, a Possibility
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index of First Lines
• Subject Index