The obscurity of the poet -- Two essays on Robert Frost : The other Frost ; To the laodiceans -- The age of criticism -- John Ransom's poetry -- Some lines from Whitman -- Reflections on Wallace Stevens -- A verse chronicle : Walter de la Mare ; Alex Comfort ; Tristan Corbière ; Muriel Rukeyser ; R.P. Blackmur ; Anthologies ; Bad poets -- Two essays on Marianne Moore; The humble animal, Her shield -- From the kingdom of necessity -- Poets -- An introduction to the selected poems of William Carlos Williams -- Three books -- The situation of a poet -- Levels and opposites: structure in poetry -- "Is American poetry American?".