The Modern Beowulf -- World-Famous Irishman -- Eliot's Missing Lectures -- Marianne Moore -- Empson the Poet -- Empson as Critic -- Henry Reed -- Roy Fuller -- Ern Malley -- On a New Way of Doing History -- Shakespeare at Work -- Romantic Revisions -- English Gnostics -- Betrand Russell -- A. J. Ayer -- Moral Literacy -- The Bible as It Was -- The Sexuality of Christ -- The Other Yeats -- Howard Hodgkin -- Sylvester on Modern Art -- The Meaning of Money: Frozen Desire -- Darwin's Worms -- The Search for a Perfect Language -- The Sea, the Sea -- A Sea and Its Meanings -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Golding's Last Novel -- Philip Roth
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Essays
Most essays previously appeared in the London Review of Books
