Writing well is the best revenge
That Shakespearian rag
Burke's great melody
Responding to Blake
Wordsworth's "Resolution and independence"
Byron in his letters
My Bront ͡problem, and yours?
Reading Hawthorne
Nineteenth-century American poetry
Talking back to Emily Dickinson
Matthew Arnolds' permanence
What to do with Carlyle?
Henry James on tour
Yeats's first fifty years
T.S. Eliot: a revaluation
Fabulous monster: Ford Madox Ford as literary critic
R.P. Blackmur's last song
Anthony Powell's serious comedy
Appreciating Kingsley Amis
Naipaul's written world
Looking back at Lessing
Mailer in retrospect
Terry Southern: R.I.P.
Robert Penn Warren's late poems
Donald Hall's poetry
Donald Davie as critic of modern poets
The last man of letters: Julian Symons.