Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. A. RICHARDS AND T. E. HULME: THE RHETORIC OF METAPHOR -- II. THE SECOND GENERATION: WILLIAM EMPSON, ALLEN TATE, JOHN CROWE RANSOM, CLEANTH BROOKS -- A. THE ATTITUDE OF WILLIAM EMPSON -- B. THE TENSION OF ALLEN TATE -- C. THE IRRELEVANT HETEROGENEITY OF JOHN C. RANSOM -- D. CLEANTH BROOKS AND THE STRUCTURE OF PARADOX -- III. GRANDSONS AND GENEOLOGISTS: W. K. WIMSATT, Jr., PHILIP WHEELWRIGHT, MURRAY KRIEGER -- A. THE F ALLACIES OF W. K. WIMSATT -- B. THE DIAPHOR OF PHILIP WHEELWRIGHT -- C. THE SYNCRETISM OF MURRAY KRIEGER -- IV. THEORY AND APPLICATION -- A. A GRAMMAR OF METAPHOR -- B. THREE METAPHORS -- C. ONE POEM -- V. AFTERWORD: THEMATICS, THE LOCATION OF VERBAL ART -- A. THEMATICS -- B. THE LOCATION OF VERBAL ART -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter