Metaphor and the tradition.--Wit and high seriousness.--Metaphysical poetry and propaganda art.--Symbolist poetry and the ivory tower.--The modern poet and the tradition.--Frost, MacLeish, and Auden.--The waste land; critique of the myth.--Yeats: the poet as myth-maker.--A note on the death of Elizabethan tragedy.--Notes for a revised history of English poetry.
