PART Ⅰ Visions of Life and the Aesthetic Outlook 1
1.Autobiographical Sketch(Ⅰ) 3
Autobiographical Sketch(Ⅱ) 10
2.Whistling of Birds 14
3.Foreword to Fantasia of the Unconscious 20
4.Return to“Bestwood” 28
PART Ⅱ Literary Perspectives，Reviews and Criticisms 43
5.Introduction tO New Poems(The American Edition) 45
6.Chaos in Poetry(Excerpts) 53
7.A Review of In the American Grain,by William Carlos Williams 64
8.The Novel 69
9.Why the Novel Matters 88
10.Morality and the Novel 97
11.The Future of the Novel 105
12.Introduction tO Mastro-don Gesualdo,by Giovanni Verga 112
13.John Galsworthy 127
14.Dostoevsky 146
15.Study of Thomas Hardy(Excerpts) 151
PART Ⅲ Excerpts from Studies in Classic American Literature 219
16.The Spirit of Place 223
17.Benjamin Franklin 233
18.Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Novels 251
19.Edgar Allan Poe 272
20.Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter 293
21.Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo 314
22.Whitman 331
PART Ⅳ Extracts from The Letters of D.H.Lawrence 345
PART Ⅴ Excerpts from Literary Critiques on D.H.Laurence 355
23.From D.H.Lawrence as a Literary Critic 357
[1]Introduction 357
[2]The Critic 376
[3]The Aesthetic 403
[8]Conclusion 442
24.The Theoretical Framework:Studies in Classic American Literature 450
25.Lawrence's Concept of the Novel 482
26.Lawrence and Imagists;Lawrence and the Americans 496
[1]Lawrence in America(1922—1925) 499
[2]Last Relations with America(1925—1930) 512
27.D.H.Lawrence and the Resacralization of Nature 528
28.Beyond D.H.Lawrence 541
Appendixes 555
Chronology 557
An Index to Lawrence's Literary Criticism 562
A Selected Bibliography of Works 568
Bibliography 572
Acknowledgement 575