How the poem was constructed / Hugh Kenner -- How the poem was received and its critical issues defined / D.E.S. Maxwell -- How the poem appeared in America / William Wasserstrom -- The poem's unity / F.R. Leavis -- The system of allusion / F.O. Matthiessen -- The beliefs embodied in the work / Cleanth Brooks -- T.S. Eliot as the international hero / Delmore Schwartz -- Imagism and its consequences / Graham Hough -- The defeatism of "The waste land" / David Craig -- The death of literary judgment / Karl Shapiro
