Aesthetics: On tradition and individual style -- Art and religion -- Art and religion: the view from India -- Faith, taste, and history -- Sincerity in art -- On the experience of nature and literary expression -- Tragedy and the whole truth -- To the Puritan all things are impure -- Art and the obvious -- "And wanton optics roll the melting eye" -- On handicraft -- On art, sanity, and mysticism -- Adonis and the alphabet -- Criticism: Chaucer -- Ben Johnson -- Crébillon the Younger -- Swift -- Baudelaire -- The best picture -- Breughel -- Variations on Goya -- Variations on El Greco -- Variations on "The prisons" -- Doodles in a dictionary -- On the absence of painters in the Tropics -- Indian water colors -- Rimini and Alberti -- Sir Christopher Wren -- The Taj Mahal -- A note on architecture in India -- Gesualdo: variations on a musical theme -- Music in India and Japan -- Music at night -- The rest is silence.
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