The Title to the Poem

Introduction; Part I. Ownership and Self-Presentation; 1. Who gives the title; 2. Who has the title; Part II. Interpretive Fictions: 3. Who 'says' the poem' 4. Who 'hears' the poem; Part III. Authoritative Hierarchies: 5. What kind the poem belongs to; 6. What the poem is 'about'; Part IV. Undermining Titles: 7. Quotations in the title space; 8. Evasions of the title space; Afterward; Notes; Index.

Anne Ferry has taught at Hunter, Wellesley, and Boston Colleges and at Harvard University.

'In her excellent study, Ferry offers a thorough and convincing account of the history of conventions governing the choice of titles ... She finds something interesting to say about almost all the titles she addresses.' Times Literary Supplement