VOLUME LXIX, NO. 4 (June 1980)

The Task of Hamlet Alexander Welsh 481
Irony, Inference, and Critical Uncertainty Fredric V. Bogel 503
The Pact with the Devil Harold Fisch 520
Faces Berel Lang 533
Identification and Its Vicissitudes: The Narrative Structure of Ezra Pound’s Cantos Michael Andre Bernstein 540
The Progress of Peace. Verse Alfred Corn 557
The Phantom Helen. Verse Martha Bacon 558
New Books in Review: Taking It As Read Terence Hawkes 560
Reason and the Moral Imagination John Hollander 577
First Families Lewis A. Coser 583
Women Artists Mary Price 588
Jean Rhys in Fact and Fiction Phyllis Rose 596
New Records in Review B. H. Haggin 602
Letters and Comment: The Journey Sylvia Saidlower Schonfeld 607
Trial Lecture Joyce King 621
Contributors v
Reader’s Guide vii