Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Old Friends and Old Selves
Reading Old Friends
Places and Poems: A Self-Reading and a Reading of the Self in the Romantic Context from Wordsworth to Parkman
Part II: Others
Poetry of Place: From the Kentucky River to the Solent Shore
W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten
Robert Duncan and David Jones: Some Affinities
Dai Greatcoat
The Later Poetry of David Jones
Such a Kingdom: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill 1952-1971
Poet-Critics of Two Generations
Some Notes on the English Poetry of Goran Printz-Pahlson
Part III: Three Poems on Poetics
Turns: Toward a Provisional Aesthetic and a Discipline
Double Derivation, Association, and Cliche: From the Great Tournament Roll of Westminster
Clarifications for Robert Jacoby: "Double Derivation ...," part iv, II. 1-10; part vii, II. 1-15, 22-28
Part IV: Not for Sales in USA, Some Poets of the 1980s
Anthologies of Contemporary British Poetry
Poet-Translators and Translator-Poets
Of Publishers, Readings, and Festivals: Circa 1986
Anglo-Welsh Poetry
Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Poetry
Scottish Poetry after MacDiarmid
Inside History and Outside History: Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Contemporary Irish Poetry
Part V:: After Auden, Some Poets of the 1970s
Michael Hamburger
R.S. Thomas and Edwin Morgan
Elizabeth Daryush and Barbara Guest
Jon Stallworthy
Paris Leary
Anne Stevenson
David Steingass
William Hunt and William Everson
John Fuller
Elizabeth Jenings and Peter Porter
John Cotton and D.M. Thomas
Notes