‘Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev’ appeared first in Partisan Review and in Puzzles and Epiphanies (Routledge & Kegan Paul and Chilmark Press, 1962).
‘Between Time and Eternity’ (from the longer essay ‘World Without End or Beginning’) and ‘Solitary Confinement’ are parts of The Sense of an Ending (Oxford University Press, 1967, 2000).
‘Hawthorne and the Types’ and ‘Wuthering Heights as a Classic’ are from The Classic (Faber and Faber and The Viking Press, 1975).
‘The Man in the Macintosh’ is from The Genesis of Secrecy (Harvard University Press, 1979).
‘Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut’ is from Wallace Stevens: A Celebration, ed. Frank Doggett and Robert Buttell (Princeton University Press, 1980).
‘Botticelli Recovered’ and ‘Cornelius and Voltemand’ are from Forms of Attention (University of Chicago Press, 1985).
‘The Plain Sense of Things’ is from Midrash and Literature, ed. Geoffrey H. Hartman and Stanford Budick (Yale University Press, 1986).
‘Mixed Feelings’ and ‘Eros, Builder of Cities’ are from History and Value (Oxford University Press, 1988).
‘Literary Criticism, Old and New Styles’ is from Essays in Criticism, Vol. LI, no. 2 (April 2001).
All the reviews are from the London Review of Books between 1994 and 2001.