1. Contraries Day of the leopards -- Genesis: an argument resumed -- Laokoon: an oracle reconsulted -- In search of verbal memesis -- Northrop Frye: criticism as myth -- 2. Eighteenth-century essays Belinda Ludens -- Imitation as freedom: 1717-1798 -- In praise of Rasselas: four notes (converging) -- Johnson's Dictionary -- 3. Poetry as poems Battering the object -- Organic form: some questions about a metaphor -- "Jam nunc debentia dici": answers to a questionnaire -- I.A.R.: what to say about a poem
