Table of Contents
Tact and the poet's force -- Finding a poem -- A poem's becoming -- Poems about paintings -- "That anguish of concreteness"-- Theodore Roethke's career -- Master's on the verse patch : John Crowe Ransom -- A rocking-horse : the symbol, the pattern, the way to live -- Crime for punishment : the tenor of part one -- Moonshine and sunny beams : ruminations on A midsummer night's dream -- Glorying in failure : Cervantes and Don Quixote -- Analysis of depths : The Inferno -- Gods of The Iliad : memoirs of a brainpicker.