The critical rediscovery of America / Robert E. Spiller -- The heritage of folklore / Tristram P. Coffin -- The Renaissance in poetry / Sculley Bradley -- Society and the novel / Maxwell Geismar -- The revolt from Broadway / Alan S. Downer -- The urbanization of humor / Walter Blair -- ǂt Poetry and language / Norman Holmes Pearson -- The "lost generation" / Arthur Mizener -- The novel in the South / C. Hugh Holman -- The new criticism / David Daiches -- The art of poetry / Stephen E. Whicher -- The larger audience / Henry Popkin -- Theatre without walls / Gerald Weales -- Recent fiction: Pícaro and Pilgrim / R.W.B. Lewis -- Poetry, raw or cooked? / Willard Thorp