Complete Essays Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925

by Huxley, Aldous; Baker, Robert S.; Sexton, James

• ISBN13: 9781566633222
• ISBN10: 1566633222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-30
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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