Collected Prose Book

	Writing
	Acoustical chambers	3
	The education of the poet	9
	Jung love	19
	On literary tradition	21
	On "The country of a thousand years of peace"	24
	On "Snapshot of Adam"	26
	Foreword to Recitative	28
	From Pourquoi ecrivez-vous	29
	On allusion	30
	The poet's notebook	32
	On Scripts for the pageant : the first five lessons	40
	On "The ballroom at Sandover	42
	Foreword to A reader's guide to James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover	44
	Interviews
	An interview with Donald Sheehan	49
	An interview with Ashley Brown	62
	An interview with John Boatwright and Enrique Ucelay DaCal	71
	On "Yannina" : an interview with David Kalstone	74
	An interview with Helen Vendler	85
	An interview with Ross Labrie	90
	An interview with J.D. McClatchy	103
	An interview with Jack Stewart	126
	An interview with Fred Bornhauser	135
	An interview with Jordan Pecile	144
	An interview with Thomas Bolt	151
	An interview with Augustin Hedberg	162
	An interview with Roderick Townley	166
	An interview with Heather White	170
	An interview with Justin Spring	174
	Writers
	Divine poem	183
	Unreal citizen	193
	Object lessons	207
	On Wallace Steven's centenary	216
	On "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"	220
	On Montale's "Mottetti VII"	222
	Foreword to Nineteen poems	224
	On Elizabeth Bishop	229
	Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)	231
	The transparent eye	234
	624 White Street	241
	Memories of Elizabeth Bishop	243
	Afterword to Becoming a poet	247
	Memories of Truman Capote	258
	Memories of Mary McCarthy	260
	Introducing Richard Wilbur	263
	Howard Moss	266
	On W. S. Merwin	268
	Preface to Burning the knife	270
	Robert Bragg : a postscript	271
	The relic, promises, and poems	274
	The Yale younger poets
	Foreword to The evolution of the flightless bird	287
	Foreword to Navigable waterways	291
	Foreword to Terms to be met	297
	Foreword to Above the land	302
	Foreword to To the place of trumpets	307
	Foreword to Out of the woods	312
	Foreword to Landscape with hermit	316
	Occasions
	The beaten path	323
	Garlic soup	332
	Notes on Corot	334
	Ten more	342
	Yannis Tsarouchis	344
	Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1967	346
	Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1979	348
	A class day talk	350
	Forword to Le Sorelle Bronte	357
	Ravel's Mother Goose	360
	Barbara Kassel	362
	Memorial tribute to David Kalstone	364
	Memorial tribute to John Bernard Myers	367
	Memorial tribute to Irma Brandeis	369
	A tribute to Marie Bullock	371
	M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)	372
	Memorial tribute to John Hersey	374
	Patmos	376
	Stories
	Rose	381
	Driver	385
	Peru : the landscape game	401
	Translations
	Selections from Chamfort	411
	C. P. Cavafy, "In broad daylight"	413
	Vassilis Vassilikos, "The three T's"	421
	Juvenilia
	Madonna	429
	Angel or earthly creature	435
	Undergraduate comment	446
	The transformation of Rilke	449
	A different person : a memoir (1993)	457