Table of Contents

Foreword by John Hollander
Introduction
1: "'Unforced Marches': A Virgilian Memoir"
2: "Wordsworth's Aeneid"
3: "Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth"
4: "Keats's 'Coming Muskrose' and Shakespeare's 'Profound Verdure'"
5: "Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero"
6: "The Rake, The Don, The Flute: Auden as Librettist"
7: "Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop"
8: "'In the Mash of the Upper and Nether': Ben Belitt's Places"
9: "'All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars': The Case of Ben Belitt"
10: "The Comedian as the Letter I, or the Perils of Vaudeville in a Post-Modern Age" (on Irving Feldman)
11: "Repetition and Singularity" (on Louise Glück and Jorie Graham)
12: "Poetry in Review" (on the Collected Poems of Donald Justice)
13: "Rita Dove, Dancing"
14: "The Nineties Re-Visited"
15: "Jorie Graham Talking"
16: "Poetry in Review: (on A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery)
17: "'Naked Without My Line-Ends': Robert Lowell in His Letters"
18: "The Achievement of Robert Lowell"
Index

About the Author

Willard Spielgelman is Duwain E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. In addition to serving as editor-in-chief for the Southwest Review, Spiegelman also a regular contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages of The Wall Street Journal.