Originally published in Great Britain in 1968 by Faber and Faber Ltd., London.

The proper plenitude of fact --Plot, fact, and value -- Hopkins, 'The world's body' -- From Tennyson to Eliot -- The human image in Yeats -- Yeats and the living voice -- The old drama and the new -- Action is eloquence -- Williams, a redeeming language -- Dangling man -- Nuances of a theme by Stevens -- A reading of Four quartets -- On Notes toward a supreme fiction -- Ezra Pound's school book.