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Tables of Contents for As of This Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A Note on the Text
xi
Foreword
xiii
PART I: POETRY
On Auden's Death
3
16
On Seamus Heaney
19
6
Robert Lowell's Marble Chips
25
13
Four Essays on Philip Larkin
38
46
Poetry's Ideal Critic: Randall Jarrell
84
6
Two Essays on Theodore Roethke
90
12
Charles Johnston's Catacomb Graffiti
102
15
Nabokov's Grand Folly
117
6
Stevie Smith: Not Drowning but Waving
123
6
Galway Kinnell's Great Poem
129
7
Les Murray and His Master Spirits
136
13
The Great Generation of Australian Poetry
149
16
PART II: FICTION AND LITERATURE
D. H. Lawrence in Transit
165
14
The Perpetual Promise of James Agee
179
11
The Sherlockologists
190
11
Raymond Chandler
201
13
Bitter Seeds: Solzhenitsyn
214
13
Go Back to the Cold!
227
9
A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses
236
9
A Death in Life
245
14
Primo Levi's Last Will and Testament
259
15
Primo Levi and the Painted Veil
274
10
The All of Orwell
284
21
Mark Twain, Journalist
305
23
Casanova Comes Again
328
12
Hamlet in Perspective
340
9
PART III: CULTURE AND CRITICISM
F. R. Leavis in America
349
9
A Whole Gang of Noise: Susan Sontag
358
4
Germaine Greer: Getting Married Later
362
8
The Metropolitan Critic
370
17
It is of a Windiness: Lillian Hellman
387
7
Mailer's Marilyn
394
15
From Log Cabin to Log Cabin
409
12
Hard-Core Gore
421
6
Evelyn Waugh's Last Stand
427
9
As a Matter of Tact
436
7
These Staggering Questions
443
13
How Montale Earned His Living
456
10
N. V. Rampant Meets Martin Amis
466
4
Hitler's Unwitting Exculpator
470
27
He That Played the Fool
497
5
Bertrand Russell Struggles after Heaven
502
19
PART IV: VISUAL IMAGES
The New Diaghilev
521
4
Pier Paolo Pain in the Neck
525
14
Mondo Fellini
539
22
Who Was That Masked Man?
561
7
The Gentle Slope to Castalia
568
17
Pictures in Silver
585
20
Index
605