Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull | p. 7 |
Is Verse a Dying Technique? | p. 19 |
In Honor of Pushkin | p. 35 |
A. E. Housman | p. 63 |
The Politics of Flaubert | p. 75 |
The Ambiguity of Henry James | p. 90 |
John Jay Chapman | p. 134 |
Bernard Shaw at Eighty | p. 165 |
Marxism and Literature | p. 197 |
Morose Ben Jonson | p. 213 |
"Mr. Rolfe" | p. 233 |
The Historical Interpretation of Literature | p. 256 |
Dickens: The Two Scrooges | p. 275 |
The Kipling That Nobody Read | p. 344 |
Uncomfortable Casanova | p. 396 |
Justice to Edith Wharton | p. 405 |
Hemingway: Gauge of Morale | p. 418 |
The Dream of H. C. Earwicker | p. 438 |
Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow | p. 458 |
Archibald MacLeish and the Word | p. 479 |
Van Wyck Brooks's Second Phase | p. 485 |
The Boys in the Back Room | p. 492 |
Max Eastman in 1941 | p. 521 |
T. K. Whipple | p. 531 |
The Antrobuses and the Earwickers | p. 539 |
Alexander Woollcott of the Phalanx | p. 544 |
The Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff | p. 549 |
Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a Stylist | p. 552 |
Thoughts on Being Bibliographed | p. 557 |
Through the Embassy Window: Harold Nicholson | p. 570 |
Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post | p. 575 |
The Life and Times of John Barrymore | p. 579 |
The Art of Evelyn Waugh | p. 585 |
John Mulholland and the Art of Illusion | p. 591 |
What Became of Louis Bromfield | p. 593 |
J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff | p. 601 |
A Toast and a Tear for Dorothy Parker | p. 603 |
A Treatise on Tales of Horror | p. 610 |
A Guide to Finnegans Wake | p. 618 |
A Novel by Salvador Dali | p. 624 |
A Long Talk about Jane Austen | p. 629 |
"You Can't Do That To Me!" Shrilled Celia | p. 636 |
Aldous Huxley in the World Beyond Time | p. 640 |
Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol | p. 644 |
Katherine Anne Porter | p. 647 |
Brooks's Age of Irving | p. 651 |
Why Do People Read Detective Stories? | p. 657 |
Bernard Shaw on the Training of a Statesman | p. 662 |
Reexamining Dr. Johnson | p. 667 |
Leonid Leonov: The Sophistication of a Formula | p. 672 |
Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? | p. 677 |
"Mr. Holmes, They Were The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound!" | p. 684 |
Glenway Wescott's War Work | p. 691 |
A Cry from the Unquiet Grave | p. 695 |
Tales of the Marvellous and the Ridiculous | p. 700 |
Thackeray's Letters | p. 704 |
Splendors and Miseries of Evelyn Waugh | p. 709 |
George Saintsbury's Centenary | p. 715 |
Ambushing a Best-Seller | p. 719 |
The Apotheosis of Somerset Maugham | p. 725 |
William Saroyan and His Darling Old Providence | p. 732 |
Oscar Wilde | p. 735 |
George Grosz in the United States | p. 745 |
An Old Friend of the Family: Thackeray | p. 749 |
Gilbert Without Sullivan | p. 758 |
George Saintsbury; Gourmet and Glutton | p. 763 |
Books of Etiquette and Emily Post | p. 767 |
A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka | p. 776 |
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Novelist and the Existentialist | p. 784 |
The Musical Glasses of Peacock | p. 793 |
Edith Wharton: A Memoir by an English Friend | p. 799 |
The Sanctity of Baudelaire | p. 804 |
Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War Period | p. 807 |
An Analysis of Max Beerbohm | p. 813 |
The Original of Tolstoy's Natasha | p. 822 |
"The Most Unhappy Man on Earth" | p. 830 |
William Faulkner's Reply to the Civil-Rights Program | p. 836 |
In Memory of Octave Mirbeau | p. 844 |
A Revival of Ronald Firbank | p. 856 |
Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases | p. 869 |
Return of Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls | p. 885 |
Doubts and Dreams: Dangling Man and Under a Glass Bell | p. 890 |
A Novel by Dawn Powell: My Home Is Far Away | p. 894 |
Faintness of the Age of Thunder and Power of The Folded Leaf | p. 897 |
Theodore Dreiser's Quaker and Graham Greene's Priest | p. 901 |
Henry James and Auden in America | p. 906 |
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