Appendix 2: PDC Material Published to Date

1-6 Approximately 3 ms. pages of PDC published as

“Unburned Bridges of Poetics, or How to Keep Poetry Pure.” Centennial Review 8 (Fall 1964): 391-97. [UC 25]

Additional material published in

“Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “‘Poetic,’ ‘Aesthetic,’ and ‘Artistic,’” pp. 35-38).

7-13 Published in

“Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Logic of the Terms,” pp. 38-42).

14-37 Approximately 17 ms. pages of PDC published as

“A ‘Dramatistic’ View of Imitation.” Accent 12 (Autumn 1952): 229-41. [UC 25]

Republished in

Rueckert (ed), Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motive, pp. 5-18.

38-55 UNCOLLECTED:Approximately 5 ms. pages of PDC (38-40, 43-44, 47) published in

“On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 25-26]

56-74 UNCOLLECTED:Large sections published in

“On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 26]

75-178 Revised, abridged, and published as

“The Thinking of the Body: Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature,” Psychoanalytic Review 50 (Fall 1963): 25-68. Later collected in LSA, pp. 308-43.

Incorporates part of

“On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 23, 26-27]

179-99 Published in

“Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Form,” pp. 42-51).

179-280 Abridged and published as

200-80 “Form & Persecution in the Oresteia . ” Sewanee Review 60 (Summer 1952): 377-96.

Later collected in LSA, pp. 125-38. [UC 23]

Published in Rueckert’s Essays (103-47) in the original, unedited version corresponding to PDC 200-80.

281-319 Published in

“Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Beyond Catharsis,” pp. 52-70).

320-60 UNCOLLECTED : Published as

“Catharsis—Second View.” Centennial Review of Arts and Science 5 (Spring 1961): 107-132. [UC 28]

361-74 Published in

“Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Platonic Transcendence,” pp. 70-77).

375-96 UNCOLLECTED : Published as

“The Poetic Motive.” Hudson Review 40 (Spring 1958): 54-63. [UC 29]

SUMMARY

• Unpublished material: 20 ms. pages
• Uncollected material: 90 ms. pages
• Published in LSA: 185 ms. pages
• Published in UC: 84 ms. pages
• Published in Essays: 17 ms. pages  

Poetics, “Dramatistically” Considered

Approximate page totals for the existing manuscript