Editor’s Note vii
Introduction 1
Harold Bloom
Motives and Motifs in the Poetry of Marianne Moore 35
Kenneth Burke
Mauberley 53
Hugh Kenner
The Shadow of a Myth 71
Alan Trachtenberg
Open to the Weather 89
Thomas R. Whitaker
Douceurs, Tristesses 111
Helen Hennessy Vendler
New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land 143
Robert Langbaum
Soundings for Home 167
Richard Poirier
How Shall I Be Mirror to This Modernity?: 195
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson”
James E. Miller, Jr.