Prologue: the secret reference of John Locke
Wordsworth's empirical imagination
Certain good: W. B. Yeats and the language of autobiography
The lost youth of modern poetry: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden.
Power, plain English, and the rise of modern poetry by David Rosen. ISBN 030010071X. Published by Yale University in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.