Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Contexts
  • The instruments of mental production
  • The knowledge of good and evil
  • Speculation and concern
  • Design as a creative principle in the arts
  • On value-judgements
  • Criticism, visible and invisible
  • Elementary teaching and elemental scholarship
  • Part two: Applications
  • Varieties of literary utopias
  • The revelation to Eve
  • The road of excess
  • The keys to the gates
  • The drunken boat: the revolutionary element in romanticism
  • Dickens and the comedy of humours
  • The problem of spiritual authority in the nineteenth century
  • The top of the tower: a study of the imagery of Yeats
  • Conclusion to A literary history of Canada.