Table of Contents

Title Page
Acknowledgements
Preface
ESSAYS

1 - Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev
2 - Between Time and Eternity
3 - Solitary Confinement
4 - The English Novel, Circa 1907
5 - Hawthorne and the Types
6 - Wuthering Heights as a Classic
7 - The Man in the Macintosh
8 - Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut
9 - Secrets and Narrative Sequence
10 - Botticelli Recovered
11 - Cornelius and Voltemand
12 - The Plain Sense of Things
13 - Mixed Feelings
14 - Eros, Builder of Cities
15 - Memory
16 - Forgetting

NOTE (12.5.88)
NOTE (27.5.88)
ON MISQUOTATION IN T. S. ELIOT (21.7.88)

17 - The Cambridge Connection
18 - Literary Criticism: Old and New Styles
19 - Shakespeare and Boito

SHORTER NOTICES

20 - Raymond Carver
21 - James Lees-Milne
22 - Auden on Shakespeare
23 - Don DeLillo
24 - Martin Amis
25 - Ian McEwan
26 - Tom Paulin

ALSO BY FRANK KERMODE
Notes
Index
Notes
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