| A Coat of Many Colors |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
 | I— The Charisma of Poetry and the Poetry of Charisma |
| II— Mysteries of Breathing: 1909–1912 |
| III— Le Nouvel Hippolyte and Phaedra-Russia: 1915–1916 |
| IV— Setting the Stage: Prolepsis in Tristia, 1915–1917 |
| V— The Question of Return: Themes and Variations, 1918–1920 |
| VI— Revolutions and the Poetics of a Dying Age |
| VII— Dying as Metaphor and the Ironic Mode: 1920–1930 |
| VIII— History and Myth: 1930–1938 |
| Notes |
| Appendix I— The Mandelstam—Gornfel'd Affair |
| Appendix II— A Note on Pasternak |
| Bibliography |
| Photo Section |
| Index |
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