Section I
Tragedy and the whole truth
The rest is silence
Art and the obvious
‘And wanton optics roll the melting eye’
Music at night
Meditation on El Greco
Section II
Meditation in Arundel Street
Meditation on the moon
On grace
Squeak and gibber
Beliefs and actions
Notes on liberty and the boundaries of the promised land
On the charms of history and the future of the past
Section III
Obstacle race
To the puritan all things are impure
Document
Points of view
Ethics in Andalusia
Section IV
Foreheads villainous low
The new romanticism
Selected snobberies
The beauty industry
Those personal touches
Wanted, a new pleasure
Sermons in cats
Vulgarity in literature