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Uniform title | Speeches. Selections |
Portion of title |
Speaking on campus |
Contents |
Getting up things to say for yourself -- Where poetry comes in -- Handling figures of speech -- "Anxiety for the Liberal Arts" -- A book side to everything -- Not freedom from, but freedom of -- Of rapid reading and what we call "completion" -- No surprise to me, no surprise to anybody else -- Pieces of knitting to go on with -- Everything in the world comes in pairs -- My kind of fooling -- About "the great misgiving" -- Wondering how convictions are had -- Something you live by till you live by something else -- Some gamble-- something of uncertainty -- The future of the world -- Hang around for the refinement of sentiment -- What I think I'm doing when I write a poem -- Of the "elect" and the "elected" -- Fall in love at sight -- Thinking about generalizations -- "In on the ground floor" -- A certain restlessness -- About thinking and of perishing to shine -- A gentler interest in the fine things -- Let's say bravely-- that poetry counts -- I'll tell you a little about my walks. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2009009082 |
ISBN | 9780393071238 : |
ISBN | 0393071235 |