Myth, metaphor, and poetry -- Misunderstanding as humour: an aspect of the English comic tradition -- Language and action in Marlowe's Tamburlaine -- Imagery and meaning in Antony and Cleopatra -- Some aspects of Milton's pastoral imagery -- Carlyle and the Victorian dilemma -- Yeats's earlier poems: some themes and patterns -- Sir Herbert Grierson -- The identity of Burns -- Hugh MacDiarmid: the early poems -- Lincoln and Whitman -- Mark Twain as Hamlet -- Presenting the Bible -- The book of Job.
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