Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.
Contents
Notes on the criticism of Herbert Read -- Politikon -- A postscript to Politikon -- T.S. Eliot -- The discipline of humanism -- Psyche in the South -- Chaos is come again -- The enabling act of criticism -- The undergraduate writer as writer -- The state of American writing -- The king over the water: notes on the novels of F.M. Hueffer -- The substance that prevails -- The language of silence: a citation -- Emily Dickinson's notation -- Introduction to American short novels -- Religious poetry in the United States -- Afterword to "The fall of the House of Usher" and other tales -- The chain of our own needles -- A poetics for infatuation -- Theodore Holmes: Dactyls and all -- Afterword to "The celestial railroad" and other stories -- Introduction to the Collected novels of Conrad Aiken.
