The Creative Element: A Study of Vision, Despair and Orthodoxy

199 pp, Introduction, I. The Visionary Individualists; II. The Necessity of Being Absolutely Modern; III. Rilke and the Angels, Eliot and the Shrines; IV. Personal Relations and Public Powes; V. Pioneering the Instinctive Life; VI, Hammered Gold and Gold Enamiling of Humanity; VII. Anti-Vision and Despair; VIII. The Theme of Political Orthodoxy in the Thirties; IX. The World of Evelyn Waugh; X. The New Orthodoxies. Previous owner's inked signature, with date & place on ffep, else pages clean, unmarked, with very slight age-toning, binding tight, cover cloth with only the slightest wear right at the spine edge tips, sun-tanned spine DJ in mylar-acetate protector. 5.8" x 8.7" red clothboards withgilt spine letters, gray DJ Size: Small Octavo.