Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inscription and Modernity; 1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in 39Romantic Inscription; 2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in 94Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy; 3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization 140in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov; 4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and 170Catastrophe; Conclusion; Coda: In Descending Sizes; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index |