From the Book - First edition.
I. Introduction: Steel and Fire
II. Origins: The Puritanical Iron Hand of Constraint
III. Illness: The Kingdom of the Mad
IV. Character: How Will the Heart Endure?
V. Illness and Art: Something Altogether Lived
Mortality: Come; I Bell Thee Home
Appendix I: Psychiatric Records of Robert Lowell
Appendix II: Mania and Depression: Clinical Description, Diagnosis and Nomenclature
Appendix III: Medical History of Robert Lowell (by Thomas A. Traill, FRCP).