The avoidance of literature : Collected essays [of] C.H. Sisson. This item is unavailable.The avoidance of literature : Collected essays [of] C.H. Sisson

Hbk, ix, 581 pages ; 23 cm. Blank ffep missing and ex-lib stamp on verso of t.p. o/w good condition. Dust-wrapper also in pretty good condition. Charles Maurras and the idea of the Patriot King -- Remarks on a letter of Junius -- Prejudice as an aid to government -- Vauvenargues and Les liaisons dangereuses -- English liberalism -- A study in public opinion -- The argument for federal union -- Reflections on a bureaucrats' war -- Helps to a new world -- The politics of Andrew Marvell -- Christian discrimination -- James Joyce -- The civil service -- Time present's children -- A German on the German question -- Politics and morals -- Charles Peguy -- Epitaph on Nuremburg -- Bertrand Russell on 'cosmic impiety' -- Heinrich Heine -- Romantic comfort -- Max Weber -- The India of the sahibs -- The pleasures of literature -- What is culture? -- Britain must take it -- A philosophy of science -- The crisis in the university -- Ego scriptor : the Pisan cantos of Ezra Pound -- Order and anarchy -- Charles Maurras -- Reflections on Marvell's Ode The nature of public administration -- A note on the monarchy -- Autobiographical reflections on politics -- Church and state -- Natural history -- Leisure and the arts -- The profession of letters, or down with culture -- Art and morality -- The study of affairs -- Second thoughts on Marvell -- William Barnes -- Sevenoaks essays -- Is there a Church of England? -- The schism between church and state -- The civil service -- The politics of Wyndham Lewis -- Wyndham Lewis's study of himself -- W.B. Yeats -- Yeats and Swift -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Edward Thomas -- Ford Madox Ford : saltavit et placuit -- Hardy and Barnes --The case of Walter Bagehot -- Fashions of government -- What about England -- Politics and the pulpit -- For the sixtieth birthday of George Barker -- Two forewords -- Geoffrey Hill -- Wyndham Lewis as Critic -- H.D-- Good sense and sensibility -- Rhyme and reason -- Reading in depth -- Martin Seymour-Smith -- David Jone's Dying Gaul -- The poetry of Jonathan Swift -- The comedy of criticism -- Poetry and myth -- Some reflections on American poetry -- A four letter word -- Looking back on Maurras -- Intimations of the eternal -- Coleridge revisited -- Editorial from PNR 3 -- Editorial from PNR 6. Subject English literature. h1858 / m15202.…