Anne Ferry, who died in 2006, was Professor of English Emerita at Boston College and the author of seven previous books, including The Title to the Poem (Stanford, 1996) , which won the Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award for best book in the Humanities in the year of its publication. In 2003 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Contents Introduction1 1Love Rhymes with of000 2The Sense of Rhyme: Sidney and Shakespeare000 3Titles in George Herbert's "little Book"000 4Thing and things: Wordsworth, Stevens, Ashbery000 5Optical Illusions: Wordsworth and His Inheritors000 6William Carlos Williams Redesigning000 7Frost's 'obvious' Titles000 8Frost's Design 9Anonymity: The Literary History of a Word000 Notes000 Index000

Anne Ferry, who died in 2006, was Professor of English Emerita at Boston College and the author of seven previous books, including The Title to the Poem (Stanford, 1996) , which won the Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award for best book in the Humanities in the year of its publication. In 2003 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Contents Introduction1 1Love Rhymes with of000 2The Sense of Rhyme: Sidney and Shakespeare000 3Titles in George Herbert's "little Book"000 4Thing and things: Wordsworth, Stevens, Ashbery000 5Optical Illusions: Wordsworth and His Inheritors000 6William Carlos Williams Redesigning000 7Frost's 'obvious' Titles000 8Frost's Design 9Anonymity: The Literary History of a Word000 Notes000 Index000