1.Marlowe's damnations; Thomas Nashe and The Unfortunate Traveller; Shakespeare at thirty; Notes on Macbeth; Shakespeare's last word: Justice and redemption; The freedom of the poet.

2.The development of Anne Frank; Conrad's journey; The mind of Isaac Babel; The Monk and its author; The freedom of the don: Slapstick and the supernatural; Sancho's proverbs.

3.The world of Henry James; Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage; The Open Boat; Enslavement: Three American cases: Theodore Dreiser; Dreiser's The Titan; F. Scott Fitzgerald; The case of Ring Lardner; Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; A note on Augie.

4.Song of Myself: Intention and substance; Hardy and his thrush; The ritual of W. B. Yeats; The poetry of Ezra Pound; Prufrock's dilemma; The sorrows of Captain Carpenter; Dylan Thomas: the Loud Hill of Wales; Robert Lowell and others; Poetry Chronicle, 1948; Waiting for the end, boys; From the middle and senior generations; Despondency and madness: on Lowerll's Skunk Hour; One answer to a question: changes.

5.Thursday out; The lovers; All their colours exiled; The imaginary Jew; Wash far away.