Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. I 1
7. 1. Rencontre: The General Editor's Introduction 3
8. 2. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 131
9. 3. George Orwell 140
10. 4. Shakespeare's Comedy of Humors 144
11. 5. The Writer as Prophet: Milton, Swift, Blake, Shaw 160
12. 6. The Literary Meaning of "Archetype" 182
13. 7. Literature and Language 190
14. 8. Blake's Jerusalem 196
15. II
16. 9. The Present Condition of the World 207
17. 10. Leisure and Boredom 221
18. 11. Criticism and Society 228
19. 12. Articulate English 236
20. 13. Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism 243
21. 14. The Social Uses of Literature 253
22. 15. Canadian Identity and Cultural Regionalism 266
23. 16. Icons and Iconoclasm 270
24. 17. Reviews of Television Programs for the Canadian Radio-Television Commission 273
25. 18. Introduction to the Second Volume of Harold Innis's "A History of Communications" 302
26. III
27. 19. William Butler Yeats 309
28. 20. Laurence Hyde, Southern Cross, and The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes 313
29. 21. Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, and Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas 318
30. 22. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History and Herbert Butterfield, History and Human Relations 321
31. 23. Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture 325
32. IV
33. 24. Convocation Address: Acadia University 333
34. 25. Convocation Address: McGill University 337
35. 26. Convocation Address: University of Bologna 340
36. Appendix: The Social Context of Literary Criticism 347
37. Notes 367
38. Index 393