Introduction CHAPTER 1 Ancient Chinese Poetics: the Aesthetic Pattern and the World 1.1 Liu Xie [Hsieh] 's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 1.2 Wang Guowei's Poetic Remarks in the Human World CHAPTER 2 New England Tradition: Puritan Typology and Transcendental Symbols 2.1 Jonathan Edwards's Typological View of Things 2.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson's Symbolic View of Things CHAPTER 3 Dickinson's Heresy: "the Unfurnished Eyes" and the "Anti-Visionary" Poet 3.1 The Unfurnished Eyes 3.2 The Anti-Visionary Poet CHAPTER 4 Dickinson and Du Fu: Worlds of Pain and Peace in Reverence 4.1 "Reverence for Life" 4.2 The Worlds of Pain and Peace Conclusion: Voice at Home and Abroad Bibliography