The hall-marks of American, by H. L. Mencken.--What is literature, what is language, etc.?? by E. Pound.--Theodore Dreiser, by V. Brooks.--The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle," by I. A. Richards.--The politics of Flaubert, by E. Wilson.--Poet without critics: a note on Robinson Jeffers, by H. Gregory.--Thomas Wolfe: the professional deformation, by M. Cowley.--Emily Dickinson, by A. Warren.--The man of letters in the modern world, by A. Tate.--Maule's curse or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory, by Y. Winters.--Willa Cather: the tone of time, by M. D. Zabel.--Tradition and the individual talent, by F. O. Matthiessen.--An adjunct to the muses' diadem: a note on E. P., by R. P. Blackmur.--William Faulkner, by R. P. Warren.--Huckleberry Finn, by L. Trilling.--What does poetry communicate? by C. Brooks.--Henry James: The American scene, by W. H. Auden.--Paleface and redskin, by P. Rahy.--Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway, by H. Levin.--The broken circuit: romance and the American novel, by R. Chase.--Ishmael and Ahab, by A. Kazin.--The book of the grotesque, by I. Howe.