The Writer in the Text
1. Where is the author? Sappho, selected poems, tr. Jim Powell
2. 'Whether in the body I know not': S. Paul, Second Epistle to the
Corinthians
3. Self-vindications I: Dante Alighieri, THE DIVINE COMEDY,
selected passages
4. Self-vindications II: John Milton, PARADISE LOST, 1.1-24, 3.1-55,
7.1-39
5. The social poet: Alexander Pope, 'The First Epistle of the Second
Book of Horace Imitated'
6. The unsocial poet: Emily Dickinson, '[The Soul selects...], '[I tried to
think a lonelier Thing']
7. Portraits of the artist: C.P. Cavafy, 'Sculptor from Tyana', 'Darius'
8. A self-portrait of the artist I?: Thomas Mann, DEATH IN VENICE
9. A self-portrait of the artist II?: James Joyce, A PORTRAIT OF THE
ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
10. 'Everything and Nothing': Jorge Luis Borges