Introduction / John Constable -- 1. Those in Authority / Anon -- 2. The World of Books: The Oracular Poets / Edmund Blunden -- 3. Poetic Pitfalls / Bonamy Dobree -- 4. Seven Types of Ambiguity / J.D.C. -- 5. Analysis of Ambiguity / Anon -- 6. Analytical Criticism / Middleton Murry -- 7. Letters to Gog and Magog: Ambiguity as Art / John O''London -- 8. New Books: Time to Make a Stand / T. Earle Welby -- 9. Intelligence and Sensibility / F.R. Leavis -- 10. Ambiguity / Anon -- 11. Books of the Quarter / James Smith -- 12. Book Reviews / Harold Rosenberg -- 13. The Criticism of William Empson / Muriel Bradbrook -- 14. Mr Empson as Poet / L.M. [Louis Macneice] -- 15. Poems, by William Empson / F.C. [Fletcher Cooke] -- 16. Complexity / G.W. Stonier -- 17. Illuminated Texts / Desmond Hawkins -- 18. Pastoral and Proletarian: In Search of "All Possible Meanings" / J. Middleton Murry -- 19. William Empson''s Verse / H.A. Mason -- 20. Pastoral and Proletarian Art / Anon.
21. Books of the Quarter / Michael Roberts -- 22. Empson''s "Poems" / I.A.R. [I.A. Richards] -- 23. William Empson''s Criticism / H.A. Mason -- 24. Exceptional Improvisation / Kenneth Burke -- 25. Exceptional Book / Kenneth Burke -- 26. The Truest Poetrie / Arthur Mizener -- 27. Mr Empson''s Muddles / John Crowe Ransom -- 28. Cats in Air-Pumps (Or Poets in 1940) / W.H. Mellers -- 29. The New Criticism / John Crowe Ransom -- 30. Empson''s Criticism / Cleanth Brookes -- 31. Empson''s Poetry / Richard Eberhart -- 32. William Empson and Categorical Criticism / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- 33. Ambiguity Revised / R.G. Cox -- 34. Ambiguous Gifts / John Wain -- 35. Bejeweled, the Great Sun / Robert Fitzgerald -- 36. Poetry and "The Non-Euclidean Predicament / William Troy -- 37. William Empson, Contemporary Criticism and Poetic Diction / Elder Olson -- 38. Seven Poets / Richard Wilbur -- 39. The Son of Spiders / Hugh Kenner -- 40. Empson''s and Ransom''s Mutilations of Texts / Newell F. Ford.
41. On Herbert''s "Sacrifice" / Rosemund Tuve -- 42. Alice in Empsonland / Hugh Kenner -- 43. Selected Notices / A. Alvarez -- 44. Mr Empson''s Complex Words / Richard Sleight -- 45. Mr Empson and Poetic Truth / G.S. Fraser -- 46. Hits and Misses / Cleanth Brooks -- 47. New Books / Austin Duncan-Jones -- 48. The Criticism of William Empson / Geoffrey Strickland -- 49. Empson and Bentley: Something about Milton Too / Robert Martin Adams -- 50. Book Reviews / Thom Gunn -- 51. The Structure of Complex Verse / A.E. Rodway -- 52. Empson Agonistes / Charles Madge -- 53. A Style from Despair: William Empson / A. Alvarez -- 54. Reviews / R.L. Brett -- 55. God and Mr Empson / John Jones -- 56. Empson''s God / A. Alvarez -- 57. Empson''s Milton / Helen Gardner -- 58. Empson''s Novel / Roger Sale -- 59. Paradox Lost? / William Riley Parker -- 60. Reviews / Barbara Everett -- 61. Tantum Religio ... / John Heath Stubbs -- 62. Empson as Critical Practitioner / Philip Hobsbaum -- 63. This Deep Blankness / Colin Falck.
64. The Dream of Reason / Geoffrey Hill -- 65. The Ways of God / Christopher Ricks -- 66. The Construction of Seven Types of Ambiguity / James Jensen -- 67. More Empson than Milton / W.W. Robson -- 68. The Achievement of William Empson / Roger Sale -- 69. Guilty Rimer / Martin Amis -- 70. Rational Artifice: Some Remarks on the Poetry of William Empson / Veronica Forrest-Thomson -- 71. The Poetry of William Empson / John Wain -- 72. Empson on Pastoral / Paul Alpers -- 73. The Dead-End Formalist Criticism / Paul de Man -- 74. Some Versions of Rhetoric: Empson and de Man / Christopher Norris -- 75. William Empson / Christopher Ricks.
