Contents xv
Wallace Stevens 671
Poetry 672
Peter Quince at the Clavier 673
Sunday Morning 674
The Idea of Order at Key West 675
Of Modern Poetry 676
William Carlos Williams 677
Poetry 677
Queen-Ann’s-Lace 677
By the Road to the Contagious Hospital 678
Paterson: Book I (Preface) 679
(Harry) Sinclair Lewis 680
Cass Timberlane 681
Virga Vay and Allan Cedar 681
Marianne Moore 684
Poetry 685
Poetry 685
The Fish 687
What Ate Years 687
In Distrust of Merits 687
Robinson Jeffers 688
Poetry 689
Shine, Perishing, Republic 689
Boats in a Fog 689
Night 690
Science 691
Hurt Hawks 691
T.S. Eliot 692
Poetry 693
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 693
Ash Wednesday 695
Four Quartets (Burnt Norton) 699
John Crowe Ransom 702
Poetry 702
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter 703
Blackberry Winter 703
Captain Carpenter 703
Archibald MacLeish 704
Poetry 705
Arts Poetica 705
You, Andrew Marvell 705
American Letter 706
E.E. Cummings 708
Poetry 708
A Wind Has Blown 708
Buffalo Bill 709
Always Before Your Voice My Soul 709
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal 709
Katherine Anne Porter 710
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 711
F. Scott Fitzgerald 715
Winter Dreams 716
William Faulkner 727
Wash 729
Delta Autumn 735
Ernest Hemingway 746
Fifty Grand 747
Hart Crane 758
Poetry 758
The Bridge 758
Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge 758
Van Winkle 759
The River 760
Thomas Wolfe 762
From Death to Morning 763
The Men of Old Catawba 763
John Steinbeck 770
The Leader of the People 771
Robert Penn Warren 778
The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger 779
Eudora Welty 785
Why I Live at the P.O. 786
Summary in Criticism
H.L. Mencken 795
The Critical Process 795