Toward a pluralistic criticism -- Walt Whitman and his leaves of grass -- The medievalism of Henry Adams -- William Dean Howells as henry James's "Moral Policeman" -- The turn of the screw and and Alice James -- A robber baron revises the octopus -- Mencken and the south -- Anatomist of monsters -- Hart crane in limbo -- Mr. Eliot regrets -- Poetry since the deluge -- Mass media and literature
