The book includes these essays: "Negative Capability: John Keats's Negotiation between Tradition and His Individual Talent"; "'Non horrebitis admovere nobis': Encountering Catullus in the Chinese Context"; "Four Versions of the Orpheus-Eurydice Myth: Virgil, Ovid, Rilke and Milosz"; "Oscillating Between Doubt and Belief: Macbeth's Ambivalent Attitude toward Fate"; "Here and the Beyond: Self-limitation and Self-fulfillment in The Rainbow"; "The Vision of the Orphic Poet in Emerson's 'Merlin.'"