Willard Spielgelman is Duwain E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. In addition to serving as editor-in-chief for the Southwest Review, Spiegelman also a regular contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages of The Wall Street Journal.

• Foreword by John Hollander ; Introduction ; 1. "'Unforced Marches': A Virgilian Memoir" ; 2. "Wordsworth's Aeneid" ; 3. "Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth" ; 4. "Keats's 'Coming Muskrose' and Shakespeare's 'Profound Verdure'" ; 5. "Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero" ; 6. "The Rake, The Don, The Flute: Auden as Librettist" ; 7. "Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop" ; 8. "'In the Mash of the Upper and Nether': Ben Belitt's Places" ; 9. "'All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars': The Case of Ben Belitt" ; 10. "The Comedian as the Letter I, or the Perils of Vaudeville in a Post-Modern Age" (on Irving Feldman) ; 11. "Repetition and Singularity" (on Louise Gluck and Jorie Graham) ; 12. "Poetry in Review" (on the Collected Poems of Donald Justice) ; 13. "Rita Dove, Dancing" ; 14. "The Nineties Re-Visited" ; 15. "Jorie Graham Talking" ; 16. "Poetry in Review: (on A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery) ; 17. "'Naked Without My Line-Ends': Robert Lowell in His Letters" ; 18. "The Achievement of Robert Lowell" ; Index

Willard Spielgelman is Duwain E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. In addition to serving as editor-in-chief for the Southwest Review, Spiegelman also a regular contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages of The Wall Street Journal.

• Foreword by John Hollander ; Introduction ; 1. "'Unforced Marches': A Virgilian Memoir" ; 2. "Wordsworth's Aeneid" ; 3. "Some Lucretian Elements in Wordsworth" ; 4. "Keats's 'Coming Muskrose' and Shakespeare's 'Profound Verdure'" ; 5. "Peter Grimes: The Development of a Hero" ; 6. "The Rake, The Don, The Flute: Auden as Librettist" ; 7. "Landscape and Knowledge: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop" ; 8. "'In the Mash of the Upper and Nether': Ben Belitt's Places" ; 9. "'All the World's Plenty, All the Brazen Particulars': The Case of Ben Belitt" ; 10. "The Comedian as the Letter I, or the Perils of Vaudeville in a Post-Modern Age" (on Irving Feldman) ; 11. "Repetition and Singularity" (on Louise Gluck and Jorie Graham) ; 12. "Poetry in Review" (on the Collected Poems of Donald Justice) ; 13. "Rita Dove, Dancing" ; 14. "The Nineties Re-Visited" ; 15. "Jorie Graham Talking" ; 16. "Poetry in Review: (on A. R. Ammons and John Ashbery) ; 17. "'Naked Without My Line-Ends': Robert Lowell in His Letters" ; 18. "The Achievement of Robert Lowell" ; Index