Man from Porlock -- pt. 1. E.P.: the man who cared too much -- Wallace Stevens: lunching with Hoon -- Retrospecting the retrospectives -- Blight of modernism and Philip Larkin's antidote -- Many-sidedness of modernism -- pt. 2. Nonsense of Winters' Anatomy -- Between two worlds or on the move -- T.S. Eliot and the courtyard revolution -- How to end the Renaissance -- pt. 3. Franz Kafka and the economy of chaos -- Giacomo Leopardi, pioneer among exiles -- As the wind sits: the poetics of King Lear -- Lucretius: the imagination of the literal.
