Essays: America in theory -- Emerson at first -- Thoreau -- Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Henry Adams's novels -- Henry James and The sense of the past -- On "Gerontion" -- Stevens's gibberish -- Trilling, mind, and society -- Brevities: Conrad Aiken -- Marianne Moore -- Wallace Stevens -- Ransom -- Allen Tate -- H.D. -- Hart Crane: I ; II -- Auden: I ; II -- Kenneth Burke -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell: I ; II -- Sylvia Plath -- John Ashbery: I ; II.
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