Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One   p. 3 

The Keening Muse   p. 34 

Pendulum's Song   p. 53 

A Guide to a Renamed City   p. 69 

In the Shadow of Dante   p. 95 

On Tyranny   p. 113 

The Child of Civilization   p. 123 

Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980): An Obituary   p. 145 

The Power of the Elements   p. 157 

The Sound of the Tide   p. 164 

A Poet and Prose   p. 176 

Footnote to a Poem   p. 195 

Catastrophes in the Air   p. 268 

On "September 1, 1939" by W.H. Auden   p. 304 

To Please a Shadow   p. 357 

A Commencement Address   p. 384 

Flight from Byzantium   p. 393 

In a Room and a Half   p. 447