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Tables of Contents for Essays of Four Decades
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Louise Cowan
Preface
xxi
I
The Man of Letters in the Modern World
3
14
To Whom Is the Poet Responsible?
17
13
Is Literary Criticism Possible?
30
15
The Function of the Critical Quarterly
45
11
Tension in Poetry
56
16
Literature as Knowledge
72
34
The Hovering Fly
106
18
Techniques of Fiction
124
17
Miss Emily and the Bibliographer
141
14
Understanding Modern Poetry
155
14
A Note on Critical ``Autotelism''
169
4
Three Types of Poetry
173
24
The Present Function of Criticism
197
14
Modern Poetry
211
11
Poetry Modern and Unmodern
222
17
II
A Note on Donne
239
8
The Point of Dying: Donne's ``Virtuous Men''
247
6
A Note on Elizabethan Satire
253
8
A Reading of Keats
261
20
Emily Dickinson
281
18
Yeats's Romanticism
299
11
Hart Crane
310
14
Crane: The Poet as Hero
324
5
Hardy's Philosophic Metaphors
329
12
Edwin Arlington Robinson
341
7
John Peale Bishop
348
10
MacLeish's ``Conquistador''
358
6
Ezra Pound
364
8
Herbert Read
372
13
III
Our Cousin, Mr. Poe
385
16
The Angelic Imagination
401
23
The Symbolic Imagination
424
23
The Unliteral Imagination; Or, I, too, Dislike It
447
15
T. S. Eliot's ``Ash Wednesday''
462
9
Longinus and the New Criticism
471
20
Johnson on the Metaphysical Poets
491
18
Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize
509
8
IV
The Profession of Letters in the South
517
18
The New Provincialism
535
12
What Is a Traditional Society?
547
11
Religion and the Old South
558
19
A Southern Mode of the Imagination
577
16
Narcissus as Narcissus
593
34
V
Prefaces:
To Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas
611
4
To Reason in Madness
615
2
To On the Limits of Poetry
617
3
To The Forlorn Demon
620
3
To The Man of Letters in the Modern World
623
4
Acknowledgments
627
2
Index
629