CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION[9]
CHAPTER II. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY[18]
CHAPTER III. ECSTASY, NOT RHYTHM, ESSENTIAL TO POETRY[42]
CHAPTER IV. PROSE THE NATURAL LANGUAGE OF THE LITERATURE OF ECSTASY[77]
CHAPTER V. PROSE PRECEDES VERSE HISTORICALLY[96]
CHAPTER VI. BLANK VERSE AND FREE VERSE AS FORMS OF PROSE[111]
CHAPTER VII. MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS AS POETRY WHEN WRITTEN WITH ECSTASY[123]
CHAPTER VIII. POETRY RISES ABOVE ART FOR ART'S SAKE AND INTUITION[138]
CHAPTER IX. HIGH FORM OF POETRY ECSTATIC PRESENTATION OF ADVANCED SOCIAL IDEALS[152]
CHAPTER X. LITERATURE OF ECSTASY EMANATES FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS[179]
CHAPTER XI. LOVE ECSTASY IN ARABIAN POETRY[203]
CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION[226]