Table of Contents:
- The man of letters in the modern world
- To whom is the poet responsible?
- The symbolic imagination : the mirrors of Dante
- The angelic imagination : Poe as God
- Our cousin, Mr. Poe
- Is literary criticism possible?
- Johnson on the metaphysical poets
- Longinus and the 'new criticism'
- A miscellany : Crane: the poet as hero. Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize. A note on critical 'autotelism'. Modern poets and conventions. The point of dying: Donne's 'Virtuous men.'