First published in 1957 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-[331]).

1. On something in particular -- 2. The art of art criticism -- 3. Gauguin : the return to symbolism -- 4. The inspired tinker -- 5. Goethe and art -- 6. Naum Gabo -- 7. Walter Pater -- 8. The writer and his region -- 9. Max Stirner -- 10. Frank Lloyd Wright -- 11. Religion and culture -- 12. Michelangelo and Bernini -- 13. The limits of logic -- 14. Baudelaire as art critic -- 13. The image in modern English poetry -- 16. De Tocqueville on art in America -- 17. Sotto voce -- 18. George Lukacs -- 19. The romantic revolution -- 20. The sustaining myth -- 21. On first reading Nietzsche -- 22. The drama and the theatre -- 23. Two notes on a trilogy -- 24. C.G. Jung -- 25. 'The prelude' -- 26. Barbara Hepworth -- 27. Susanne Langer -- 28. Henry Miller -- 29. 'De Stijl' -- 30. Ezra Pound -- 31. The architect as universal man -- 32. Gandhi -- 33. The enjoyment of art -- 34. D'Arcy Thompson -- 35. A seismographic art -- 36. Tribal art and modern man -- 37. Graham Sutherland -- 38. Kokoschka -- 39. The problem of the zeitgeist -- 40. The faith of a critic.