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Charles Williams. Reason and Beauty
Reason and Beauty
Table of Contents
PREFACE
I. THE OSTENTATION OF VERSE
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II. THE ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM
III ‘WHAT IS BEAUTY?’
IV ‘REASONING BUT TO ERR’ THE ESSAY ON MAN
V. THE EVASION OF IDENTITY (i) SPENSER
VI. THE EVASION OF IDENTITY (ii) THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GRECIAN URN
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VII ‘A LADY’S EYES’
VIII. THE DEIFICATION OF REASON
IX. THE ABOLITION OF SIGNIFICANCE
X. THE DISPERSAL OF MIST
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Charles Williams
Published by Good Press, 2021
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—have their amazing effect partly by their place. They do not look before, but all that has gone before leads up to and contrasts with that actual fact; in a sense, all Paradise Regained does but define that moment. This is the conclusion of the whole matter, but it also contains the whole matter, as, for example, ‘who this is we must learn’ does not. We have learnt; we know who the ‘He’ is, and what ‘unobserved’ and ‘private’ imply, and why ‘his mother’s house’ and how ‘returned’. All great poetry in a sense is final.
