Table of Contents:
  • About the Author-Preface-Acknowledgments
  • Chronology -Chapter 1-A Son of the Middle Border -Chapter 2-The Immense Journey: The Making of a Literary Naturalist
  • Chapter 3-Evolution: The History of an Idea
  • Chapter 4-The Baconian Vision
  • Chapter 5 A Fugitive from Time
  • Chapter 6-The Return to Poetry
  • Notes and References-Selected Bibliography-Index.