Essays of Four Decades

I

• "The Man of Letters in the Modern World"
• "To Whom Is the Poet Responsible?"
• "Is Literary Criticism Possible?"
• "The Function of the Critical Quarterly"
• "Tension in Poetry"
• "Literature as Knowledge"
• "The Hovering Fly"
• "Techniques of Fiction"
• "Miss Emily and the Bibliographer"
• "Understanding Modern Poetry"
• "A Note on Critical 'Autotelism'"
• "Three Types of Poetry"
• "The Present Function of Criticism"
• "Modern Poetry"
• "Poetry Modern and Unmodern"

II

• "A Note on Donne"
• "The Point of Dying: Donne's 'Virtuous Men'"
• "A Note on Elizabethan Satire"
• "A Reading of Keats"
• "Emily Dickinson"
• "Yeats's Romanticism"
• "Hart Crane"
• "Crane: The Poet as Hero"
• "Hardy's Philosophic Metaphors"
• "Edwin Arlington Robinson"
• "John Peale Bishop"
• "MacLeish's Conquistador"
• "Ezra Pound"
• "Herbert Read"

III

• "Our Cousin, Mr. Poe"
• "The Angelic Imagination"
• "The Symbolic Imagination"
• "The Unilateral Imagination; Or, I, too, Dislike It"
• "T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday"
• "Longinus and the New Criticism"
• "Johnson on the Metaphysical Poets"
• "Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize"

IV

• "The Profession of Letters in the South"
• "The New Provincialism"
• "What Is a Traditional Society?"
• "Religion and the Old South"
• "A Southern Mode of the Imagination"
• "Narcissus as Narcissus"

V

Prefaces:

• To Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas
• To Reason in Madness
• To On the Limits of Poetry
• To The Forlorn Demon
• To The Man of Letters in the Modern World