Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Thornton Wilder as poeta doctus -- Chapter 2 An American successor to Vergil: The Cabala -- Chapter 3 Sapphica puella Musa doctior: The female sage -- Chapter 4 The torch race of literature and The Skin of Our Teeth -- Chapter 5 Our tears: Lacrimae rerum as Wilder's recurrent motif -- Bibliography -- Index
