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399 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Wordsworth in the tropics -- The olive tree -- The desert -- The Palio at Siena -- Sabbioneta -- Between Peshawar and Lahore -- Jaipur -- Atitlan -- Sololà -- Copan -- In a Tunisian oasis -- Miracle in Lebanon -- Beauty in 1920 -- Fashions in love -- Sermons in cats -- Appendix -- Subject-matter of poetry -- Tragedy and the whole truth -- Vulgarity in literature -- D.H. Lawrence -- Famagusta or Paphos -- Breughel -- Meditation on El Greco -- Form and spirit in art -- Variations on Goya -- Landscape painting as a vision-inducing art -- Popular music -- Music at night -- Gesualdo : variations on a musical theme -- Variations on a Baroque tomb -- Faith, taste, and history -- Maine de Biran : the philosopher in history -- Usually destroyed -- Words and behavior -- Decentralization and self-government -- Politics and religion -- The scientist's role -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow -- Madness, badness, sadness -- A case of voluntary ignorance -- The oddest science -- The doors of perception -- Drugs that shape men's minds -- Holy face -- Pascal -- Beliefs -- Knowledge and understanding. |
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English essays.
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