An art without importance -- Poetic invention and the Self-Unseeing -- T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane -- Crane in his letters -- Stevens and the idea of the hero -- Marianne Moore as discoverer -- "That weapon, self-protectiveness": notes on friendship -- Elizabeth Bishop's dream-houses -- The making of the Auden canon -- Answer, heavenly muse, yes or no -- Geoffrey Hill and the conscience of words -- Ted Hughes's River -- A poet and her burden -- John Ashbery: the self against its images -- Hemingway's valor -- How moral is taste?
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