Contents

Preface

Credits

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Press Cuttings

2 Delicate Rhythms

3 Experiment

4 Poetry (I)

5 Poetry (II)

6 Henry Wells

7 Irene Moody

8 Poetry (III)

9 New Directions (I)

10 Review of New Writing and Daylight (I)

11 Review of Voices and Genesis

12 Review of New Writing and Daylight (II)

13 Joseph Schull

14 New Directions (II)

15 Karl Shapiro

16 Kenneth Rexroth

17 Idols of the Marketplace

18 A.E. Coppard and T.F. Powys

19 George Orwell, Animal Farm

20 Review of New Writing and Daylight (III)

21 Review of The Kafka Problem

22 Henry James, Roderick Hudson

23 Yeats and the Language of Symbolism

24 The Betjeman Brand

25 Edith Sitwell, The Shadow of Cain

26 For Tory and Leftist

27 Virginia Woolf

28 Four Short Reviews

29 Ezra Pound

30 George Orwell

31 Novels on Several Occasions

32 Phalanx of Particulars

33 Quest and Cycle in Finnegans Wake

34 Graves, Gods, and Scholars

35 Nature and the Psyche

36 Poetry of the Tout Ensemble

37 The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens

38 Religion and Modern Poetry

39 The Nightmare Life in Death

40 Comment

41 T.S. Eliot

I: Introduction

II: Antique Drum

III: Dialect of the Tribe

IV: Unreal City

V: From Fire by Fire

42 Tribute to John Crowe Ransom

43 The Rising of the Moon: A Study of A Vision

44 Foreword to 1984

45 The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats

46 Draft Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature

47 Wallace Stevens and the Variation Form

48 Aldous Huxley

49 Rolls Royce

50 Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake

51 Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult

Notes

Emendations

Index

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