The Hunter Gracchus
The Hunter Gracchus. And Other Papers on Literature and Art. Washington, DC: Counterpoint; distributed by Publishers Group West, 1996.
Contents:
- Introductory Note
- The Hunter Gracchus
- On Reading
- Tom and Gene
- Taking Up Serpents
- Shaker Light [ "Celebrating the Shaker Vision" House & Garden ( July 1986)]
- Joyce the Reader
- II Timothy
- Civilization and Its Opposite in the 1940s
- Style as Protagonist in Donald Barthelme
- Stanley Spencer and David Jones
- Wheel Ruts
- Eros, His Intelligence
- A Letter to the Masterbuilder
- Two Notes on Wallace Stevens
- Jack Sharpless
- Thoreau and the Dispersion of Seeds
- Life, Chance, and Charles Darwin
- Lenard Moore
- Guernica
- Late Gertrude
- O. Henry
- Gerald Barrax
- Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- Journal I
- Gibbon
- Journal II
- What Are Revolutions?
- Walt Whitman and Ronald Johnson
- Grant Wood's The Good Influence
- Writing Untied and Retied as Drawing
- The Drawings of Paul Cadmus
- Micrographs
- Mr. Hawthorne, of Salem
- The Comic Muse
- Travel Reconsidered
- Keeping Time
- The Sage of Slabsides
- John Cheever in Paradise
- Stephen Crane
- Ruskin According to Proust
Note: Previous publications of these essays are listed on page [341]. (this statement is in the 1997 paperback edition)
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