On Yeats's poem "Leda and the swan" -- Explication de texte applied to Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" -- "Tears, idle tears" again -- A reinterpretation of "The fall of the House of Usher" -- The "Ode on a Grecian urn", or content vs. metagrammar -- Marvell's's "Nymph complaining for the death of her fawn" -- Understanding Milton -- Herrick's "Delight in disorder" -- Three poems on ecstasy: John Donne, St. John of the Cross, Richard Wagner -- Spenser, "Shepheardes calendar, March" (lines 61-114) and the Variorum edition -- Explication de texte applied to three great Middle English poems -- Appendix American advertising explained as popular art
