Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm -- Sounding: Henry David Thoreau -- Ranting: Herman Melville -- Distributing: Ezra Pound -- Presenting: Marianne Moore -- Circulating: Frank O'Hara -- Relishing: James Schuyler -- Afterword: enthusiasm and audit…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Índice de contenidos: The Poets--The pursuit of happiness-- The band of rivals--John Ashbery: the picture of little J.A. in a prospect of flowers-- Frank O'Hara: you just go on your nerve -- Kenneth Koch: the pleasures of peace-- James Schuyler: things as they are --The Ordeal of the Avant-Garde-- The avant-garde rides to the rescue -- The last avant-garde…”

“…This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernised and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. …”