Skeptical Music

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Art without Importance
2. Poetic Invention and the Self-Unseeing
3. T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane
4. Crane in His Letters
5. Stevens and the Idea of the Hero
6. Marianne Moore as Discoverer
7. "That Weapon, Self-Protectiveness": Notes on a Friendship
8. Elizabeth Bishop's Dream-Houses
9. The Making of the Auden Canon
10. Answer, Heavenly Muse, Yes or No
11. Geoffrey Hill and the Conscience of Words
12. Ted Hughes's River
13. A Poet and Her Burden
14. John Ashbery: The Self against Its Images
15. Hemingway's Valor
16. How Moral Is Taste?
Index