Contents xi
The Hill Wife 861
The Ax-Helve 862
The Grindstone 865
The Witch of Coos 866
Fire and Ice 870
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 870
Two Tramps in Mud Time 870
Desert Places 872
Design 872
Come In 873
Directive 873
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) 875
Fog 877
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 877
Monotone 877
Gone 877
A Fence 878
Grass 878
Southern Pacific 878
Washerwoman 879
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) 879
The Book of the Grotesque 881
Adventure 882
Susan Glaspell (1876? –1948) 886
A Jury of Her Peers 887
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 901
Portrait d’une Femme 903
The Seafarer 904
A Virginal 906
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter 907
A Pact 908
In a Station of the Metro 908
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 908
The Cantos 917
I [And then went down to the ship] 917
XIII [Kung walked] 919
LXXXI [What thou lovest well remains] 921
CXVI [Came Neptunus] 922
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 924
Tradition and the Individual Talent 927
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 933