Critical writings, 1953-1978

Content: Montaigne and transcendence (1953) --
The inward generation (1955) --
Poetic nothingness: on a hermetic sonnet by Mallarmé (1955) --
The temptation of permanence (1955) --
Keats and Hölderlin (1956) --
Situation of the novel (1956) --
Process and poetry (1956) --
Thematic criticism and the theme of Faust (1957) --
A new vitalism: Harold Bloom (1962) --
Giraudoux (1963) --
Heidegger reconsidered (1964) --
Spacecritics: J. Hillis Miller and Joseph Frank (1964) --
Sartre's confessions (1964) --
A modern master: Jorge Luis Borges (1964) --
Whatever happened to André Gide? (1965) --
What is modern? (1965) --
The mask of Albert Camus (1965) --
Modern poetics in France and Germany (1965) --
The literature of nihilism (1966) --
Madame de Staël and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1966) --
Introduction to the poetry of John Keats (1966) --
The riddle of Hölderlin (1970) --
Jacques Derrida, Of grammatology (1970) --
Foreword to Carol Jacobs, The dissimulating harmony (1978).