Five ways of reading Lycidas / M.H. Abrams
Why Diderot? / Jacques Barzun
The songs in Mother courage / Eric Bentley
The writer and our time: Malraux, Sartre, Camus / Germaine Breé
Literary criticism: poet, poem, and reader / Cleanth Brooks
Toward a definition of romanticism / Calvin S. Brown
The three revolutions of modern poetry / Stanley Burnshaw
How to read Dante / John Ciardi
Moby-Dick: a Hamitic dream / Edward Dahlberg
The equiv́oco of Don Quixote / Angel del Rió
How to read The sound and the fury / Leon Edel
Oresteia: dramatic form and vision / John Gassner
Rebirth of a classic: Celestina / Stephen Gilman
What was modernism? / Harry Levin
Madame Bovary / Henri Peyre
Dostoevsky in Crime and punishment / Philip Rahv
The posthumous history of the Enlightenment / Gregor Sebba
On the modern element in modern literature / Lionel Trilling.