Edited and translated by Theodore Russell Weiss & René Weiss

• FrontMatter,
• Acknowledgments,
• Contents,
• The Man From Porlock,
• ¿.P.: The Man Who Cared Too Much,
• Wallace Stevens: Lunching With Hoon,
• Retrospecting the Retrospectives,
• The Blight of Modernism and Philip Larkin's Antidote,
• The Many-sidedness of Modernism,
• The Nonsense of Winters' Anatomy,
• Between Two Worlds or On the Move,
• ¿. S. Eliot and the Courtyard Revolution,
• How to End the Renaissance,
• Franz Kafka and the Economy of Chaos,
• Giacomo Leopardi Pioneer Among Exiles,
• As the Wind Sits: The Poetics of King Lear,
• Lucretius: The Imagination of the Literal Several,

These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world.
Originally published in 1982.
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