This issue of Mosaic includes a wide ranging and dynamic group of essays. They include analyses of Chaucer (one on Numerology and one on analytical thought), emblematic literature, the sonata form in August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata, the meaning of poetry, Richard Wagner’s Siegfried, suicide in the French-Canadian novel since 1945, W.B. Yeats’s interest in the Renaissance, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s influence on the “literary life of Soviet Russia.” Also included is an important discussion of comparative literature in Japan and the United States.