The condition of the individual talent -- Auden's dirty laundry -- Modernism's last aesthete (John Ashbery) -- In and out of the avant -- Millions of strange shadows (James Merrill) -- Beyond psychology (Elizabeth Bishop) -- The habits of their habitats (Amy Clampitt and Gjertrud Schnackenberg) -- Younger poets -- Chronicle at home and abroad -- Natural selections (W.D. Snodgrass) -- The middle generation -- Chronicle of the late eighties -- At the heart of grandeur (Anthony Hecht) -- The midnight of nostalgia (Donald Justice) -- Chronicle of the early nineties -- The charity of the mystery of Geoffrey Hill -- The absolute unreasonableness of Geoffrey Hill -- A letter from Britain.
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