POETRY AND CONTEMPLATION A,NEW PREFACE TO POETICS by G. ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Macmillan TOKYO CONTENTS INTRODUCTION page ix CHAPTERS I Poetic Experience: The Sphere of Poetics 1 II Distractions 9 III Unconscious Experience 13 IV The Wholeness of Experience V Wholeness and Objective Theories 9 VI The Growth of Experience 38 VII The Continuity of Experience 42 VIII Analysis of Experience 5 IX Contemplative Experience: The Aes thetic Attitude 66 X Objective Experience 77 XI Poetic and Ordinary Experience: The Difference 84 XII Poetic and Ordinary Experience: The Connection 98 XIII Creation of Experience: Definition of a Poet 107 XIV Reality and Facts of Mind 119 XV Poetic Emotions 138 XVI The Poet and Society 144 INDEX 158