Poems and essays. * Foreword * from Collected Poems (1951): 23 Poems, including "The Steeple-Jack", "The Fish", "Marriage", "What Are Years?", "He Dygesteth Harde Yron", "Virginia Britannia", "Spenser's Ireland", "The Pangolin", "Nevertheless", "In Distrust of Merits" * Like a Bulwark (complete): including "Tom Fool at Jamaica" * O to Be a Dragon (complete): including "Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese" * Other Poems (uncollected): including "Carnegie Hall: Rescued" * from The Fables of La Fontaine: 24 fables, including "The Grasshopper and the Ant", "The Fox and the Grapes", "The Lion in Love", "The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs", "The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid" * from Predilections: "Humility, Concentration, and Gusto" and 3 other essays * Other Prose (uncollected): including "Idiosyncrasy and Technique", "Brooklyn from Clinton Hill", "My Crow", "Pluto—A Fantasy", "If I Were Sixteen Today", "Abraham Lincoln and the Art of the Word", essays on Paul Rosenfeld, Edith Sitwell, Kenneth Burke, others, and "The Ford Correspondence" * The Paris Review Interview with Donald Hall * Notes