The Shapeless God; essays on modern fiction.

God was here but He left early : short fiction

Collected essays.

Essays. Selections

Preface to Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas -- Preface of Reason in madness -- The present function of criticism -- Literature as knowledge -- Miss Emily and the bibliographer -- The function of the critical quarterly -- Tension in poetry -- Three types of poetry -- Understanding modern poetry -- Techniques of fiction -- The hovering fly -- A reading of Keats -- Hardy's philosophic metaphors -- Emily Dickinson -- Yeats' romanticism -- Hart Crane -- John Peale Bishop -- Narcissus as Narcissus -- The profession of letters in the South -- The new provincialism -- What is a traditional society? -- Religion and the old South -- A note on Donne -- A note on Elizabethan satire -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- MacLeish's conquistador -- g[6.] The forlorn demon: The man of letters in the modern world -- To whom is the poet responsible? -- The symbolic imagination: the mirrors of Dante -- The angelic imagination: Poe as God -- Our cousin, Mr. Poe -- Is literary criticism possible? -- Johnson on the metaphysical poets -- Longinus and the "new criticism" -- A miscellany: Crane: the poet as hero ; Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize ; A note on critical "autotelism" ; Modern poets and conventions ; The point of dying: Donne's "virtuous men" -- A Southern mode of the imagination.

The Black aesthetic.

Theory: Towards a Black aesthetic / Some reflections on the Black aesthetic / Negro youth speaks / You touch my Black aesthetic and I'll touch yours / Black cultural nationalism / Cultural strangulation: Black literature and the white aesthetic / Black arts: notebook / Afro-American literary critics: an introduction / Music: Introduction to Black aesthetics in music / Of the sorrow songs / Jazz at home / The changing same (R & B and new Black music) / The Black aesthetic imperative / Reflections on the evolution of post-war jazz / A comparative analysis of the African and the Western aesthetics / Poetry: The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Tripping with Black writing / Blackness can: a quest for aesthetics / The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties / Toward a definition: Black poetry of the sixties (after LeRoi Jones) / Paths to the future / Drama: The Negro and the American theatre (1927) / The Black arts movement / I work here to please you / Black theater -go home / On Black theater / Fiction: Blueprint for Negro writing / The new Black literature: protest or affirmation / The Black writer and his role / The Black writer vis-á-vis his country / Some observations on a Black aesthetic / Can a metronome know the thunder or summon a god? / The function of Black literature at the present time

Arrow of God.

The God boy

Penguin classics

The sun is God.

Child of God

No God in Saguaro

A Double D western

A jest of God

Phoenix fiction

Phoenix fiction.

Their eyes were watching God : a novel.

God bless you, Mr. Rosewater : or, Pearls before swine