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Tables of Contents for A Company of Readers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword: Three Men and a Book
xi
Jacques Barzun
Introduction: Club Work
xix
Arthur Krystal
Biography and Belles Lettres
As Uncomfortable as a Modern Self
3
6
Jacques Barzun
Man Before Myth
9
5
W. H. Auden
``The Blest Group of Us''
14
9
Jacques Barzun
The Man-Mountain
23
8
Jacques Barzun
The Artist as Scapegoat
31
4
Jacques Barzun
Life Into Words
35
8
Jacques Barzun
History and Social Thought
The Sense of History
43
9
Jacques Barzun
Thinking What We Are Doing
52
8
W. H. Auden
The Esthetic Society
60
7
Jacques Barzun
``Apologies to the Iroquois''
67
7
W. H. Auden
Not All Are O.O.O.
74
6
Jacques Barzun
Ultima Thule
80
3
Jacques Barzun
The Chemical Life
83
4
W. H. Auden
No Mean City
87
6
Lionel Trilling
Novels and Novelists
``Short Novels of Colette''
93
4
W. H. Auden
Lorenzo the Magniloquent
97
3
Jacques Barzun
A Triumph of the Comic View
100
7
Lionel Trilling
A Review of the Alternate
107
2
W. H. Auden
Proust's Way
109
9
Jacques Barzun
Dostoevsky in Siberia
118
5
W. H. Auden
The Story and the Novel
123
7
Lionel Trilling
An Investigation of Modern Love
130
11
Lionel Trilling
The Magician from Mississippi
141
6
W. H. Auden
Fifty Years of ``The Wind in the Willows''
147
3
Lionel Trilling
A Disturbing Novelist
150
3
W. H. Auden
James Baldwin
153
6
Lionel Trilling
``Lord of the Flies''
159
6
Lionel Trilling
Music, Theater, and Fine Arts
Why Talk About Art?
165
6
Jacques Barzun
Wisdom, Wit, Music
171
5
W. H. Auden
The Nude Renewed
176
7
Lionel Trilling
The Lost Glory
183
5
Lionel Trilling
The Creation of Music and Poetry
188
8
W. H. Auden
``The Tradition of the New''
196
5
Jacques Barzun
The Comedy of Comedies
201
4
Jacques Barzun
Bergman Unseen
205
7
Lionel Trilling
``Curtains''
212
6
Lionel Trilling
The Artist in Public Life
218
7
Jacques Barzun
Poetry
T. S. Eliot So Far
225
4
W. H. Auden
John Betjeman's Poetic Universe
229
7
W. H. Auden
The Word as Heard
236
6
Lionel Trilling
Two Ways of Poetry
242
5
W. H. Auden
A Poet Newly Given
247
9
Lionel Trilling
A Poet of Honor
256
9
W. H. Auden
A Round-robin
Three Memoranda on ``The New Arden Shakespeare''
265
7
The Editors
Jameschoice for January
272
3
The Editors
Editor's Note
275
3
Appendix 1: Complete List of Essays and Reviews from The Griffin and The Mid-Century
278
8
Appendix 2: Essays from The Griffin and The Mid-Century Published Elsewhere
286
3
Acknowledgments
289