This romantic mysticism of rhetoric--romantic because discipline merges with originality rather than originality with discipline--results in a mysticism of geography, not to say of subjects. The movements of his poems are the fluctuations of surfaces: they give a sea-sense of externality: the moon, the sea, frost, tropical horizons, the monotony of continuous exploration. Their direction is classical; that is, they tend to become mechanical by a sort of ecstasy of technical excellence: O I have known metallic paradises Where cuckoos clucked to finches Above the deft catastrophes of drums. While titters hailed the groans of death Beneath gyrating awnings I have seen The incunabula of the divine grotesque. This music has a reassuring way. And here he would rest if he did not, in his restraint ‘have extreame’, have what he calls ‘fine collapses’-- We can evade you and all else but the heart: What blame to us if the heart live on? By such fine collapses, composition just manages to escape with its life--beginning again and again and again in spite of its posthumous classicism. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: It has been found impracticable in the printing of this poem to set it vertically on the page, as it was originally printed--to suggest a downward fluttering movement.] INDEX OF PRINCIPAL PROPER NAMES Acton, Harold, 201 A. E., 166 Aiken, Conrad, 166 Aldington, Richard, 216, 217 Anglo-Irish mystics, 124 Aristotle, 191, 208 Baedeker, 242 Baudelaire, 39 Beddoes, T. L., 81, 173 Belloc, Hilaire, 17 _Beowulf_, author of, 262 Binyon, L., 220 Blake, William, 195, 196, 198 Blunden, Edmund, 176 Bottomley, Gordon, 220 Brahms, 96 Bridges, Dr. Robert, 92, 93 Brooke, Rupert, 120, 164 Browning, R., 158, 160, 161, 183, 197, 236 Burns, Robert, 173, 195 Bynner, Witter, 166 Byron, Lord, 176, 192, 193, 197-199, 224, 236, 241 Calverley, C. S., 37 Campbell, T., 197 Canaletto, 239 Catullus, 252-254 Chalmers, A., 78 Chaucer, G., 173 Chesterton, G. K., 17 Clare, John, 195 Coleridge, S. T., 95, 99, 105, 158, 192-193 Colman, G., 244 Crane, Hart, 47, 289-291 Cummings, E. E., 9-34, 38-41, 44, 59-64, 84-88, 100, 131-134, 153, 174, 187, 201-202, 217, 245-247, 249-250, 252, 288-289 Cunard, Nancy, 165, 201 Darley, G., 173 David, King, 48 Davidson, Donald, 209, 211, 214 Davidson, John, 184 Davies, W. H., 200-201 Debussy, 96 de Gourmont, Rémy, 14 de Saint Pierre, B., 235 de Vere, Aubrey, 197 Dickinson, Emily, 122, 183 Dobson, Austin, 116 Doolittle, Hilda (“H.D.”), 121-123, 204, 217 Doughty, C. M., 199 Drinkwater, J., 100, 111-112 Dryden, J., 173 Duck, Stephen, 194 Ecclesiastes, 222, 225 Eliot, T. S., 50-53, 165, 167-174, 201-202, 211-215, 217, 223, 235-242, 252, 264, 265, 275, 278, 289 Euripides, 176 Fletcher, John, 168, 170 Flint, F. S., 217 France, Anatole, 225 Frazer, Sir James, 171-172 Frost, Robert, 176-177 Gautier, 234 Gay, J., 243