The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Disliking the Gentlemen of England....Pages 1-6
Hendren-Rhododendron....Pages 7-11
The Mildly Monstrous....Pages 12-22
Uses of Pasternak....Pages 23-29
A Captured Unicorn....Pages 30-33
Skoal to the Stanchless Flux, or the Worst of Henry Miller....Pages 34-38
Leavis against Eliot....Pages 39-43
Lou Andreas-Salome....Pages 44-47
Leopardi’s Hump....Pages 48-50
Jesuit Hopkins: Violets Knee-deep....Pages 51-54
Of Asphodel, that Greeny Flower....Pages 55-57
Our Grandest Lollipop Man....Pages 58-63
Public Honours, or a Peerage for Tennyson....Pages 64-66
A Sectary of Backness....Pages 67-69
Housman....Pages 70-76
William Morris....Pages 77-97
The Book of Quotations: Hypocrisy, Vice, Virtue....Pages 98-101
On Collecting One’s Reviews....Pages 102-104
Emily Dickinson Reconsidered....Pages 105-107
Poems in Early Plain English: Edwin Arlington Robinson....Pages 108-111
Lawrence Twice Over....Pages 112-118
Walter the Rhymer....Pages 119-127
That Very Fiery Particle....Pages 128-131
Lytton Strachey at Last....Pages 132-139
Jonah Barrington, and the Parish of Myddle....Pages 140-145
The Freedom of Horace Walpole....Pages 146-148
Edward Thomas among his Inferiors....Pages 149-154
Knots in the Timber of Robert Frost....Pages 155-165
Four Ways of Making Fudge....Pages 166-176
Dorian Gray: John Gray....Pages 177-182
The Poet Who Did Not Care for Life....Pages 183-195
Three Eastern Notes....Pages 196-205
Browning and the Faces of Poets....Pages 206-210
Seferis on Poetry....Pages 211-214
Poems by Robert Lowell....Pages 215-220
From Imagists to the Black Mountain....Pages 221-229
A Conversation....Pages 230-241
Fourteen Remarks....Pages 242-243