Table of Contents:
  • Walt Whitman: A candidate for the future
  • Constantine Cavafy: Great themes, grand connections
  • W.H. Auden: Goodbye to Wystan
  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Canada-Brazil connection
  • James Schuyler: Whatever is moving
  • The poet's voice
  • The first line
  • From a notebook
  • The poet's story
  • Eudora Welty: The lonesomeness and hilarity of survival
  • Eudora: A house divided
  • Jean Rhys: Going to pieces
  • Elizabeth Bowen: Interior children
  • Elizabeth Bowen: 1899-1973
  • Sylvia Plath: Dying: an introduction
  • Katherine Mansfield: A pinched existence
  • Jean Stafford: Jean: some fragments
  • Anton Chekhov: Hingley's biography
  • Anton Chekhov: Three sisters
  • J. Henri Fabre: The incomparable observer
  • Christopher Isherwood: Isherwood at seventy-five
  • Marcel Proust
  • One hundred years of Proust.