Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. An indicative list of publications by Walter Nash 9
6. Chapter 1. “Warmth of thought” in Walter Nash’s prose and verse 11
7. Chapter 2. Chrysanthemums for Bill 37
8. Chapter 3. The doubling of design in Walter Nash’s Rhetoric 57
9. Chapter 4. Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W. H. Auden’s “The Wanderer” 77
10. Chapter 5. “My Shakespeare, rise” 85
11. Chapter 6. Discourse presentation and point of view in “Cheating at Canasta” by William Trevor 101
12. Chapter 7. Doing and teaching 113
13. Chapter 8. Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy 127
14. Chapter 9. Common Language 149
15. Chapter 10. “Americans don’t do Irony” 171
16. POEM
17. Defunct Address 193
18. Name index 195
19. Subject index 199