The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Permissions 6 Dedication 8 Epigraph 9 Foreword 10 Contents 12 Part I: Prologue 15 Reading 16 Writing 26 Part II: The Dyer's Hand 41 Making, Knowing and Judging 42 The Virgin & The Dynamo 72 The Poet & The City 83 Part III: The Well of Narcissus 101 Hic et Ille 102 Balaam and His Ass 116 The Guilty Vicarage 155 The I Without a Self 168 Part IV: The Shakespearian City 177 The Globe 178 The Prince's Dog 189 Interlude: The Wish Game 216 Brothers & Others 225 Interlude: West's Disease 245 The Joker in the Pack 253 Postscript: Infernal Science 280 Part V: Two Bestiaries 282 D. H. Lawrence 283 Marianne Moore 302 Part VI: Americana 312 The American Scene 313 Postscript: Rome v. Monticello 328 Red Ribbon on a White Horse 331 Postscript: The Almighty Dollar 339 Robert Frost 341 American Poetry 358 Part VII: The Shield of Perseus 373 Notes on the Comic 374 Don Juan 389 Dingley Dell & The Fleet 410 Pestscript: The Frivolous & The Earnest 432 Genius & Apostle 436 Postscript: Christianity & Art 459 Part VIII: Homage to Igor Stravinsky 465 Notes on Music and Opera 466 Cav & Pag 476 Translating Opera Libretti 484 Music in Shakespeare 501