Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some marking and wear due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This volume gives a selection of Mr Huxley’s essays about literature painting architecture and music. It begins with thirteen essays dealing with problems of aesthetics and goes on to discuss the work of Chaucer Ben Jonson Swift Baudelaire Brueghel Goya El Greco Christopher Wren and many others. There are essays on Indian water- colours and music on Art and Religion on puritanism in literature and on the absence of painters in the tropics. Learned inquiring challenging written with all Mr Huxley’s independence of thought and elegance of style this book gives the reader an oppor- tunity to travel with a many-minded writer as he explores the sources and fertile variety of the arts. (SP)