The death of James Joyce -- William and henry James: "our passion is our task" -- Proust in his letters -- Maxim Gorky and the master friends -- An introduction to William Blake -- Turgenev and the non-Russians -- Edmund Wilson: the critic and the age -- The painfulness of D.H. Lawrence -- The journal of Henry David Thoreau -- The anger of Flaubert -- Fitzgerald: an American confession -- We who sit in darkness -- The lost rebel -- Kafka -- The journal keeper -- The solitude of Paul Rosenfeld -- From an Italian journal -- The writer's friend -- E.E. Cummings and his fathers -- On Melville as scripture -- The gift -- The American equation -- The letters of Sherwood Anderson -- The writer and the madman -- Dreiser -- The writer and the university -- Dostoevsky and the age of anxiety -- Faulkner in his fury.
