The Shaping spirit; studies in modern English and American poets

Eliot and Yeats: orthodoxy and tradition.--Ezra Pound: craft and morals.--William Empson: a style from a despair.--W. H. Auden: poetry and journalism.--The lyric of Hart Crane.--Wallace Stevens: platonic poetry.--D. H. Lawrence: the single state of man.--Art and isolation.