Ghosts on the Roof, originally published in 1989, brings together more than fifty short stories, essays, articles, and reviews that originally appeared in Time, Life, National Review, Commonweal, The American Mercury, and the New Masses.

Terry Teachout, Whittaker Chambers, Milton Hindus

One: Introductory; Two: Documentation; Poem 1; Poem 2; Poem 3; Poem 4; Poem 5; Poem 6; Poem 7; Poem 8; Poem 9; Poem 10; Poem 11; Poem 12; Poem 13; Three: Analysis; 1: The Four Kinds of Meaning; 2: Figurative Language; 3: Sense and Feeling; 4: Poetic Form; 5: Irrelevant Associations and Stock Responses; 6: Sentimentality and Inhibition; 7: Doctrine in Poetry; 8: Technical Presuppositions and Critical Preconceptions; Four: Summary and Recommendations; Summary