One POETRY PAST AND PRESENT, 3
1．The Widening of Sensibility, 3
2．Some Workings of Tradition, 10
3．Hopkins,Hardy,and the 'Religion of Art,' 20
Two YEATS AND THE MODERN MIND, 28
1．The Unconsenting Spirit, 28
2．A Retrospect:The Here and the There, 35
3．Prophetic Yeats, 41
Three EZRA POUND:THE POET AS HERO, 49
1．Authority, 49
2．Mauberley:Alienation of the Citizen-Artist, 58
3．Some Notes on the Cantos, 66
Four T．S．ELIOT AND THE DISPLACED SENSIBILITY, 75
1．'Damnation on This Earth,' 75
2．The'Objective Correlative,' 81
3．The Waste Land and Four Quartets, 88
Five RIVAL IDIOMS:THE GREAT GENERATION, 104
1．Robinson and Frost, 104
2．Williams and Stevens, 113
3．MacDiarmid and Muir, 131
4．Moore,Cummings,Sandburg,Jeffers, 140
Six NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH, 160
1．D．H．Lawrence, 160
2．Hart Crane, 168
3．Auden and the Thirties, 182
Seven EXQUISITE CHAOS:THOMAS AND OTHERS, 203
1．Dylan Thomas and Recent British Verse, 203
2．Robert Lowell and the Poetry of Confession, 225
3．Poets of the New Academy, 244
4．Outside the Academy, 264
BIBLIOCRAPHY, 273
INDEX, 279