Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter ii
2. Contents viii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Mariner and the Albatross 15
6. Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism 35
7. On Translating Aristotle’s Poetics 44
8. ‘Scholarship’, ‘Research’ and ‘The Pursuit of Truth’ 75
9. ‘Research’ and the Humanities 102
10. Picking Up the Thread 122
11. Jane Austen: Poet 145
12. Birthright to the Sea: Some Poems of E. J. Pratt 175
13. Literature: An Instrument of Inquiry 197
14. Teaching Poetry 215
15. The Humanities in the World at Large 230
16. Notes 249
17. Bibliography of the Works of George Whalley 263
18. Index 268