Introduction to the Transaction Edition Preface Chronology 1. Past and Present 2. Breaking Out 3. Good and Evil in the One Lump 4. The Witnessing Art Blackmur at Poetry 5. A Failure Worth Making The Life of Henry Adams 6. Diabolus in the Scale Blackmur at Fiction 7. The Pedagogue of Sensibility 8. A Lion in the Path 9. Through the Ashes of His Chance 10. The Critic as Artist Notes Index