Complete Essays Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925,9781566633222

Complete Essays Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925

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ISBN13: 9781566633222
ISBN10: 1566633222
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-30
Publisher(s): Ivan R. Dee
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Summary

These first two volumes of a projected six collect the complete essays of one of the major writers of the 20th century. His reading was immense, his taste impeccable, and his ear acute....His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured. --T. S. Eliot. Edited with Commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton.

Table of Contents

A Note on This Edition xiii
Introduction xv
I. ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, LITERATURE
Proust: The Eighteenth-Century Method
5(3)
A Ghost of the Nineties
8(3)
(On Essays)
11(2)
(Proust and Best-Sellers)
13(2)
(Godwin and Bailey)
15(3)
(Balzac and Social History)
18(2)
(Aristocracy and Literature)
20(3)
(Alfieri)
23(3)
(Bacon's Symbolism)
26(2)
The Cry for a Messiah in the Arts
28(4)
The Modern Spirit and a Family Party
32(6)
Marie Laurencin: A Woman of Genius
38(2)
A Film with a Warning
40(6)
The Salzburg Festival
46(4)
The Portraits of Augustus John
50(4)
Royalty and a Caricature
54(5)
Centenaries
59(4)
On Re-reading Candide
63(3)
Subject-Matter of Poetry
66(4)
Water Music
70(3)
Bibliophily
73(2)
Accumulations
75(2)
On Deviating into Sense
77(3)
Polite Conversation
80(4)
Nationality in Love
84(2)
How the Days Draw In
86(4)
Beauty in 1920
90(3)
Great Thoughts
93(2)
Advertisements
95(3)
Euphues Redivivus
98(3)
The Author of Eminent Victorians
101(3)
Edward Thomas
104(3)
A Wordsworth Anthology
107(2)
Verhaeren
109(3)
Edward Lear
112(3)
Sir Christopher Wren
115(4)
Ben Jonson
119(7)
Chaucer
126(13)
How to Write a Tragedy
139(7)
The Importance of the Comic Genius
146(4)
A Ballet in the Modernist Manner
150(3)
Fashions in Visual Imagery
153(4)
Popular Literature
157(4)
Art and Life
161(5)
The Spread of Bad Art
166(4)
What, Exactly, Is Modern?
170(4)
Where Are the Movies Moving?
174(3)
The Pleasant and the Unpleasant
177(3)
Books for the Journey
180(4)
Sabbioneta
184(6)
Breughel
190(9)
Rimini and Alberti
199(6)
Conxolus
205(4)
The Best Picture
209(6)
The Pierian Spring
215(5)
The Mystery of the Theater
220(7)
II. Music
Brahms
227(2)
Busoni, Dr. Burney, and Others
229(1)
The Interpreter and the Creator
230(2)
Good-Popular Music
232(1)
Instruction with Pleasure
233(2)
Emotional Contributions
235(2)
Light Opera and the New Stravinsky
237(1)
The Mysteries of Music
238(2)
Some Easter Music
240(2)
Music and Machinery
242(1)
Beethoven's Quartets
243(2)
Singing and Things Sung
245(2)
Patriotism and Criticism
247(2)
The Criticism of Music
249(3)
A Problem of Musical History
252(1)
The Question of Form
253(2)
Literary Music
255(2)
A Few Complaints
257(2)
Mr. Lawrence's Marchioness
259(2)
Supplementing the Concerts
261(2)
Orientalism in Music
263(2)
Music in a Museum
265(2)
Popular Tunes---Past and Present
267(2)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
269(3)
Thayer's Beethoven
272(2)
The Salzburg Festival---I
274(2)
The Salzburg Festival---II
276(2)
The Salzburg Festival---III
278(2)
Mozart at Salzburg
280(2)
Popular Music in Italy
282(2)
Some Very Young Music
284(2)
Reflections in the Promenade
286(2)
Busoni Again
288(2)
Reflections in the Concert Room
290(2)
New Friends and Old
292(2)
Variations
294(1)
Music and Politics
295(2)
An Orlando Gibbons Concert
297(2)
The Arnold Bax Concert
299(2)
Temporaries and Eternals
301(2)
Verdi and Palestrina
303(2)
Round About Don Juan
305(2)
Delius and the Nature-Emotion
307(2)
Bad Music
309(2)
Music in the Encyclopaedia
311(2)
Going to the Opera
313(2)
Handel, Polly, and Ourselves
315(1)
Music Clubs
316(2)
Cherubini---Emotion and Form
318(2)
Madrigals and Program Music
320(1)
The Hymn and the Dream
321(2)
Barbarism in Music
323(2)
Notes on a Pianist and on Pianos
325(2)
A Mozart Program
327(2)
Contemporaneousness
329(3)
Bach and Handel
332(2)
Books About Music
334(2)
What Are the Wild Waves Saying?
336(1)
Brahms's Birthday
337(2)
Opera, Marionettes, and Battistini
339(2)
Eclecticism
341(2)
Music and the Interpretative Medium
343(2)
Popular Music
345(6)
III. HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL CRITICISM
Accidie
351(3)
Pleasures
354(3)
Modern Folk Poetry
357(4)
Democratic Art
361(3)
Follow My Leader
364(5)
The Dangers of Work
369(3)
On Not Being Up-to-Date
372(3)
Fashions in Love
375(4)
By Their Speech Ye Shall Know Them
379(4)
The Importance of Being Nordic
383(5)
The Horrors of Society
388(3)
The Psychology of Suggestion
391(3)
Talking of Monkeys
394(5)
A Night at Pietramala
399(11)
Work and Leisure
410(9)
IV. TRAVEL
Tibet
419(2)
Why Not Stay at Home?
421(5)
Wander-Birds
426(4)
The Traveler's-Eye View
430(6)
Guide-Books
436(5)
Spectacles
441(2)
The Country
443(5)
Montesenario
448(2)
Patinir's River
450(1)
Portoferraio
451(2)
The Palio at Siena
453(6)
Views of Holland
459(6)
Appendix 465(2)
Index 467

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