Includes bibliographical references.

Beowulf and modern critical tradition / Douglas D. Short -- The imagery of fortune and religion in Troilus and Criseyde / William B. Toole III -- Myth and counter-myth : the many faces of Richard III / Larry S. Champion -- "So loving-jealous of his liberty" : possessiveness and dependency in Shakespeare's women / Mary C. Williams -- Hal, the mirror of all Christian kings / Walter E. Meyers -- Pistol's "Taste of much correction" / Philip E. Blank, Jr. -- "Carelesse Phrygius" : Donne's separatist sectarian / M. Thomas Hester -- Crashaw, St. John of the Cross and the dark night of the soul / Robert V. Young, Jr. -- Robinson Crusoe's two servants / Catherine E. Moore -- Truth for Sheridan / Jack D. Durant -- The influence of Mrs. Barbauld's Hymns in prose for children upon Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience / Porter Williams, Jr. -- The ancient mariner as poète maudit / Antony H. Harrison -- Tennyson's "little Hamlet" / Harry A. Hargrave -- Kate Chopin's The awakening and the limits of moral judgment / Allen F. Stein -- False dawn : The sun also rises manuscript / Michael S. Reynolds -- The uninvited guest in James Joyce's "Aeolus" / Max Halperen -- The apprenticeship of Erskine Caldwell / Guy Owen -- Carson McCullers and human rights / Nancy B. Rich.