The marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta
The two gentlemen of Verona
Poetry and life: Lord Byron
The poet and the copy-writer: a dialogue
Part II. The poetry of Wallace Stevens
The bread of faithful speech
Summer's flare and winter's flaw
The current of the frozen stream
The poetry of Robert Graves
On Shapiro, Roethke, Winters
The generation of violence
The peotry of Reed Whittmore
The careful poets and the reckless ones
Seven poets and the language
Younger poets: the lyric difficulty
Part III. Composition and fate in the short novel
Calculation raised to mystery
The ills from missing dates
Themes and methods in the early stories of Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann's Faust novel
Part IV. Across the woods and into the trees
Iniquity it is; but pass the can
Public services and pointing hands
Part V. A few bricks from Babel
The golden compass needle.