The Koine of myth: myth as a universally intelligible language -- Literary and linguistic scholarship in a postliterate world -- The symbol as a medium of exchange -- The survival of eros in poetry -- The view from here -- Framework and assumption -- The dialectic of belief and vision -- The expanding world of metaphor -- The responsibilities of the critic -- Some reflections on life and habit -- The rhythms of time -- Literature as a critique of pure reason -- Literature and the visual arts -- The stage is all the world -- The journey as metaphor -- The double mirror -- The mythical approach to creation -- Crime and sin in the Bible -- Blake's Bible -- Natural and revealed communities -- Castiglione's Il Cortegiano -- The meeting of past and future in William Morris -- The world as music and idea in Wagner's Parsifal -- Cycle and apocalypse in Finnegans Wake
