附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index.
Exploring the prairies -- Breaking the sod: the Illinois prairies and the public voice of William Cullen Bryant -- Tilling, sowing, and cultivating: popularizing the prairies -- From "Revery" to nightmare: the limits of the optimistic metaphor in the private voices of Dickinson and Melville -- Reaping the harvest: the expanse of the metaphor in the combining voice of Walt Whitman -- History and poetry.
