[I]. Poetry. 1. Ballads and tales -- American names -- Ballad of William Sycamore -- The mountain whippoorwill -- King David -- The retort discourteous -- Southern ships and settlers -- Captain Kidd -- French pioneers -- Thomas Jefferson -- John James Audubon -- Daniel Boone -- Western Wagons -- 2. Young adventure -- 8:30 a.m. on 32nd street -- Mortuary parlors -- Ghosts of a lunatic asylum -- For all blasphemers -- Architects -- Talk -- The golden corpse -- To Rosemary -- Nomenclature -- Difference -- A sad song -- A nonsense song -- 3. My Fair Lady -- To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel -- Legend -- Dulce ridentem -- Illa -- Hands -- Memory -- Memento Mori -- 4. Nightmares and visitants --Notes to be left in a cornerstone -- Short ode -- Metropolitan nightmare -- Nightmare, with angels -- Nightmare number three -- 1936 -- Sparrow -- For city lovers -- Do you remember, Springfield? -- Ode to Walt Whitman -- Nightmare for future reference -- Minor litany -- Nightmare at noon -- They burned the books (radio script) -- [II]. Prose. -- 1. Stories of America --Jacob and the Indians -- The devil and Daniel Webster -- Freedom's a hard-bought thing -- Johnny Pye and the fool-killer -- The die-hard -- Glamour -- The prodigal children -- Schooner Fairchild's class -- Doc Mellhorn and the pearly gates -- 2. Far from here and now --The barefoot saint -- The bishop's beggar -- The curfew tolls -- Into Egypt -- By the waters of Babylon -- 3. Criticism and letters -- Foreword to Muriel Rukeyser's Theory of Flight -- Epic on an American theme (correspondence with the Guggenheim foundation).
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