The play of criticism: The innocent insinuations of wit: the strategy of language in Shakespeare's sonnets; The dark generations of Richard III; The frail china jar and the rude hand of chaos; Dover beach and the tragic sense of eternal recurrence; The Marble faun and the international theme; From Youth to Lord Jim: the formal-thematic use of Marlow; The ekphrastic principle and the still movement of poetry; --The place of criticism: The disciplines of literary criticism; Joseph Warren Beach's modest appraisal; Contextualism was ambitious; Contextualism and the relegation of rhetoric; Critical dogma and the new critical historians. Platonism; Manichaeism, and the resolution of tension; Northrop Frye and contemporary criticism : Ariel and the spirit of gravity; The existential basis of contextual criticism

1. Criticism
2. English literature -- History and criticism