The work of poetry
Originality
A poetry of restitution
What you mean by home
Dreaming poetry
The poetics of a preposition
Hearing and overhearing the Psalms
On A child's garden of verses
My poetic generation
Discovering Wallace Stevens
O heavy verse! The shopwork of the workshops
Whitman's difficult availability
Arduous fullness : on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The poetry of nonsense : Carroll's quest romance
A poem lost and found : Jean Ingelow's successful "failure"
Meredith's poetry
"Far space and long antiquity" : Trumbull Stickney's autumns
Spoon River anthology : a late appreciation
Marianne Moore's verse
Modes and ranges of a long dawn : Robert Penn Warren's poetry
Elizabeth Bishop's mappings of life
May Swenson's massive panoply
The scarred most sacred : some remarks on Geoffrey Hill.