The moonless night / Evelyn Barish -- "Christ crucified" / Wesley T. Mott -- Emerson's foreground / Jerome Loving -- Emerson on "making" in literature / Glen M. Johnson -- The method of nature and Emerson's period of crisis / David Robinson -- The poet and experience / Richard Lee Francis -- Emerson's Eumenides / David W. Hill -- Emerson's Shakespeare / Sanford E. Marovitz -- The contemporary reception of English traits / Robert E. Burkholder -- "The Adirondacs" and technology / Ronald A. Sudol -- Emerson as teacher / Merton M. Sealts, Jr.