Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Under the title of “Readers and Writers” and over the initials “R. H. C.” I contributed to the _New Age_, during a period of seven or eight years, a weekly literary causerie of which the present volume, covering the years 1917-1921, is a partial reprint. My original design was...
Under the title of “Readers and Writers” and over the initials “R. H. C.” I contributed to the _New Age_, during a period of seven or eight years, a weekly literary causerie of...
2. Part 2TURGENEV.—Both in Mr. Conrad’s Introduction and Mr. Edward Garnett’s critical study of Turgenev I observe the attitude of defence. They are defending rather than praising Turgen...
3. Part 3THE FATE OF SCULPTURE.—The art-critic of _The Times_ having remarked that “the public hardly looks at the sculpture in the Academy, or outside it,” Mr. John Tweed, an eminent sc...
4. Part 4MR. POUND, CARICATURIST.—Mr. Ezra Pound comes in for it again—as he always does. His idiosyncrasies are the enemies of his personality, and they will always, unless he can amend...
5. Part 5MR. STANDISH O’GRADY, ENCHANTER.—_The Selected Essays and Passages from Standish O’Grady_ is a priceless anthology of this neglected author. Very few people in England realise t...
6. Part 6LITERARY CULS-DE-SAC.—A cul-de-sac occurs in literary history when a direction is taken away from the main highway of the national language and literature; when the stream it re...
7. Part 7BEARDSLEY AND ARTHUR SYMONS.—“Unbounded” admiration is precisely what I cannot feel for Aubrey Beardsley’s work, even “within its own sphere.” I ought to say, perhaps, “because...
8. Part 8Page 137. On Power. “_If we have not power we are nothing, and must remain outcasts of Heaven._” In this chapter “Æ” shakes the fringes of the most dangerous subject in the worl...
9. Part 9I should be trespassing on the domain of the psycho-analysts if I were to attempt to indicate the _means_ by which a collective hysteria may be resolved into an integration. Tak...
10. Part 10NORSE IN ENGLISH.—Professor C. H. Herford makes a meritorious attempt to recall attention to the influence and value of the Norse Myths upon English Poetry. William Morris was m...
11. Part 11PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND THE MYSTERIES.—It would be unwise to make a dogma of any of the present conclusions of psycho-analysis. As a means of examining the contents of the subconsci...
12. Part 12One of the recently so honoured dead in the pages of the _Dial_ has been Whitman; and in an essay on _Whitman’s Love Affairs_ Mr. Emery Holloway throws a fresh light on an old b...
13. Part 13“It is difficult to do anything but advise all who take even a slight interest in the mind of man, in politics, sociology, education, religion, or art, to buy the book and read...