Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (page [265]).
1. The archetypes of literature -- Myth, fiction, and displacement -- Nature and Homer -- New directions from old -- 2. The structure of imagery in The faerie queene -- How true a Twain -- Recognition in The winter's tale -- Literature as context: Milton's Lycidas -- Towards defining an age of sensibility -- Blake after two centuries -- The imaginative and the imaginary -- Lord Byron -- 3. Emily Dickinson -- Yeats and the language of symbolism -- The realistic oriole: a study of Wallace Stevens -- Quest and cycle in Finnegan's wake