An Appetite for Poetry

Frank Kermode

    Prologue

    1. The Common Reader

    2. Milton in Old Age

    3. Wallace Stevens: Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut

    4. T. S. Eliot: The Last Classic

    5. William Empson: The Critic as Genius

    6. Freud and Interpretation

    7. Divination

    8. The Plain Sense of Things

    9. The Argument about Canons

    10. The Bible: Story and Plot

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Frank Kermode is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Columbia University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.