The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry -- Homage to W.H. Auden. Miles from Babylon: Poems of the Unfinished Journey. Auden Onstage. Postscript: The Essential Auden Flaw -- Achilles in the No Man's LAnd -- A Touchstone from Tennyson -- American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century -- Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, and the Wellsprings of Poetry -- Irish Poetry at the Crossroads -- West Indian Discoveries -- Louis Simpson's Singular Charm -- Anne Sexton and Her Times -- Short Subjects. J.V. Cunningham. Thomas McGrath. Charles Wright, Josephine Jacobsen and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Daniel Mark Epstein -- The New Formalism and the Audience for Poetry -- Dana Gioia's Case for Poetry -- Other Lives: On Shorter Narrative Poems -- The Tenacity of John Haines