1. Literature and ...: Family novel -- Nature and social reality in Bellow's "Sammler" -- Bergman's "Persona": an essay on tragedy -- Language and reality in Kosinski's "Steps" -- Gombrowicz's "Cosmos": the clinical fiction as novel -- Attitudes towards sex in American "high culture" -- 2. American poetry scene: A very separate peace: on Roethke -- Roethke letters -- On Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath: the trepanned veteran -- More on Sylvia Plath -- On confront nullity: the poetry of Ben Belitt -- Alan Dugan: the poetry of survival -- On Adrienne Rich: intelligence and will -- Howard Nemerov's true voice of feeling.
