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Structuralism: the Anglo-American adventure.--Ghostlier demarcations: the sweet science of Northrop Frye.--Beyond formalism.--The heroics of realism.--Virginia's web.--Camus and Malraux: the common ground.--Maurice Blanchot: philosopher-novelist--Milton's counterplot.--Adam on the grass with Balsamum.--Marvell, St. Paul, and the body of hope.--The nymph complaining for the death of her faun: a brief allegory.--Blake and the progress 30484of poesy.--Wordsworth, inscriptions, and romantic nature poetry.--Hopkins revisited.--The poet's politics.--The maze of modernism: reflections on MacNeice, Graves, Hope, Lowell, and others.--False themes and gentle minds.--Romanticism and anti-self-consciousness.--Romantic poetry and the genius loci.--The voice of the shuttle: language from the point of view of literature.--Toward literary his