pt. 1. The poetry of innuendoes. Shakespeare at sonnets ; Sex and science in Donne ; Herrick among the Goths ; Wordsworth pro and con ; Frost in the waste land
pt. 2. The poetry of inflections. Jonson's small Latin and less Greek ; Sidney for moderns ; Spenser in the minotaur's cave ; Milton's two poets ; Rationalism and the discursive style ; What is Augustan poetry? ; Remembering Shelley
pt. 3. The hymn in the throat. Herbert at play in the fields of the lord ; Marvell's tin ear ; Arnold between worlds ; How Yeats came into his strength.
