The essays, reviews, memoirs, and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. The Golden Fleece, which takes its title from Spark's first published essay, has four sections-Art &...
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The essays, reviews, memoirs, and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. The Golden Fleece, which takes its title from Spark's first published essay, has four sections-Art & Poetry; Autobiography & Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics & Philosophy-forming a kind of oblique autobiography, an evolving confession of a powerful individual faith in the human and what transcends it. Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Art and Poetry -- The Golden Fleece -- The First Christmas Eve -- Love -- Ravenna: City of Mosaics -- The Art of Verse -- Ruskin and Read -- Robert Burns -- Andrew Young -- Giacomo Manzù -- The Desegregation of Art. The Blashfield Address to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York -- The Wisdom of Mr T.S. Eliot -- Ingersoll Foundation - T.S. Eliot Award -- Pensée: T.S. Eliot -- The Complete Frost -- John Masefield -- Decorative Art -- Poetry and Politics -- Emily Brontë -- Part II. Autobiography and Travel -- My Most Memorable New Year's Eve -- When I Was Ten -- Pensée: Scottish Education -- My Book of Life -- Note on My Story 'The Gentile Jewesses' -- The Celestial Garden Party -- What Images Return -- Comment on 'The Poet's House' -- The Poet's House -- Footnote to 'The Poet's House' -- My Madeleine -- How I Became a Novelist -- The Writing Life -- Living in Rome -- Venice -- Istanbul -- Tuscany by Chance -- The Sitter's Tale -- Italian Days -- The David Cohen British Literature Prize, 1997 -- Part III. Literature -- How to Write a Letter -- Our Dearest Emma -- Passionate Humbugs -- Pensée: Biography -- Fuzzy Young Person -- The Brontës as Teachers -- My Favourite Villain: Heathcliff -- Mrs Gaskell -- Mary Shelley. Proposal for a Critical Biography and Note -- Mary Shelley: Wife to a Genius -- Frankenstein and The Last Man -- Shelley's Last House -- The Essential Stevenson -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Celebrating Scotland -- The Books I Re-Read and Why -- London Exotics -- A Drink with Dame Edith -- Pensée: Miss Brodie on the Stage -- The Short Story -- Daughter of the Soil -- Heinrich Böll -- Eyes and Noses -- Simenon: A Phenomenal Writer -- The Book I Would Like to Have Written, and Why -- Pensée: The Supernatural.
