"Sumptuous destitution" -- Round about a poem of Housman's -- Edgar Allan Poe -- A speech at a ceremony -- Shakespeare's poems -- Poetry and happiness -- On my own work -- Poe mystery case -- Explaining the obvious -- Present state of Whitman -- Regarding places -- Poetry's debt to poetry -- On Robert Frost's "The gum-gatherer" -- "The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" -- Bottles become new, too -- Introductions to Moliére.