YOU MIGHT feel that art, whatever form it may take, is a complex subject which requires
proper specialization to speak about it and that one who attempts to talk about it must …

THERE are some impenetrable mysteries about a great work of art. The creative impulse
behind it, the skill of eye and hand indispensable to its making, its strange garment of style …

Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he
wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so …

Such a system scemns to possess many advantages. Among others, it tends to emancipate
the student of art, as well as the amateur, from metaphysical and visionary theories growing …

In the daily life of the ordinary man, a life crowded with diverse interests and increasingly
complex demands, some few moments of a busy week or month or year are accorded to an …

WHAT thoughtful man has not been perplexed by problems relating to art? An estimable and
charming Russian lady I knew, felt the charm of the music and ritual of the services of the …

We next went to the School of Language, where three Professors sate in Consultation upon
improving that of their country. The first Project was to shorten discourse by cutting …