Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index
All that you praise I take: a glimpse of the young Thom Gunn / Eavan Boland -- Young Gunn: coming out fighting / Neil Powell -- Existentialism and homosexuality in Gunn's early poetry / Alfred Corn -- Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans / Clive Wilmer -- Thom Gunn: the plain style and the city / August Kleinzahler -- Thom Gunn and Anglo-American modernism / Keith Tuma -- From Ladd's Hill to Land's End (and back again): narrative, rhythm, and the transatlantic occasions of "Misanthropos" / Joshua Weiner -- Two versions of "Meat" / Thom Gunn -- Gunn's "Meat": notations on craft in America / Joshua Weiner -- Summation and chthonic power / John Peck -- Our dionysian experiment: three theses on the poetry of Thom Gunn / Brian Teare -- Thom Gunn's new Jerusalem / Tom Sleigh -- Domains of ecstasy / David Gewanter -- Considering "Considering the snail" / Paul Muldoon -- Thom Gunn's "Duncan" / Wendy Lesser -- Coda: Thom Gunn, inside and outside / Robert Pinsky