Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays
1958-1970. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press; Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1970.
Contents:
Part I:1-57.
- Structuralism:
The Anglo-American Adventure:3-23.
- Ghostlier Demarcations: The Sweet
Science of Northrop Frye:24- 41.
- Beyond Formalism:42-57.
Part II:59-110.
- The Heroics of Realism:61-70.
- Virginia's Web:71-84.
- Camus and Malraux: The Common Ground:85-92.
- Maurice Blanchot:
Philosopher-Novelist:93-110.
Part III:111-280.
- Milton's Counterplot:113-123.
- Adam on the Grass with Balsamum:124-150.
- Marvell, St.Paul, and the Body of Hope:151-172.
- "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": A Brief
Allegory:173-192.
- Blake and the Progress of Poesy:193-205.
- Wordsworth, Inscriptions, and Romantic Nature Poetry:206-230.
- Hopkins Revisited:231-246.
- The Poet's Politics:247-257.
- The Maze of Modernism: Reflections on Louis MacNeice, Robert Graves,
A.D. Hope, Robert Lowell, and Others:258-280.
Part IV:281-386.
- False Themes and Gentle Minds:283-297.
- Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness:298-310.
- Romantic Poetry and the Genius Loci:311-336.
- The Voice of the Shuttle: Language from the Point of View of
Literature:337-355.
- Toward Literary History:356-386.
Paperback, 1972.
Excerpts from "Ghostlier Demarcations: The Sweet Science of Northrop Frye" reprinted under the heading "(Herman) Northrop Frye" in Sharon R. Gunton, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 24, pp. 216-219. Det
roit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1983.
"`The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun': A Brief Allegory." In Harold Bloom, ed., John Donne and the Seventeenth- Century Metaphysical Poets, pp. 213-224. Modern Critical Views. New
York: Chelsea House, 1986.
"Beyond Formalism" reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present, Volume 10: Contemporary, pp. 543-554. New York & Philadelphia: C
helsea House, 1990.