Chapter 1: Preface -- Chapter 2: The Triumph of Serious Art -- Chapter 3: Authentic Art and Artists -- Chapter 4: Exclusion -- Chapter 5: Distrust of Commerce and Commercialism -- Chapter 6: Sharing Art -- Chapter 7: Present and Future Changes -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

"Scholars of literature have devoted considerable attention to what they have called confessional or personal poetry, in which Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and a series of other poets, from the 1950s on, made their art out of the experiences of their own lives. Yet art scholars have not analyzed...