Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

pt. 1. Thirteen ways of looking at a skylark

Figures of thought

About time

Exceptions and rules

On the resemblances between science and religion

Poetry and meaning

The dream of Dante

pt. 2. Speculation turning to itself

On poetry and painting, with a thought of music

Speaking silence

The miraculous transformations of Maurits Cornelis Escher

The winter addresses of Kenneth Burke

Quidnunc the poet and Mr. Gigadibs

Thoughts on first passing the hundredth page of Finnegan's wake

pt. 3. What was modern poetry?: Three lectures: Image and metaphor ; Poetry and history ; What will suffice.