Selected literary essays

De Descriptione Temporum

The alliterative metre

What Chaucer really did to Il Filistrato

The fifteenth-century heroic line

Hero and Leander

Variation in Shakespeare and others

Hamlet: the prince or the poem?

Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century

The literary impact of the authorised version

The vision of John Bunyan

Addison

Four-letter words

A note on Jane Austen

Shelley, Dryden, and Mr. Eliot

Sir Walter Scott

William Morris

Kipling's world

Bluspels and Flalansferes: a semantic nightmare

High and low brows

Metre

Psycho-analysis and literary criticism

The anthropological approach.