Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions

absurd artist attitude Aubrey Beardsley Beauty Brothers Karamazov called Charles Lamb Christ Christian clairvoyant cold cosmic craving curious Dante daring dark dead death demonic Dickens divine Domenico Theotocopoulos Dostoievsky dreams earth Edgar Allan Poe El Greco eternal exquisite fantastic Fate Faust feel fools genius gods Goethe Goethe's Goethean Greco Hardy Hardy's heart human humour Ideal imagination irony Keats Ligeia live look lust magic mania matter Matthew Arnold means Milton mind modern mood moral mystery natural never Nietzsche noble one's ourselves passion perhaps philosophy pity play poem poet poetic poetry poor queer Rabelais Rabelaisian religion Russian secret sense shadow Shakespeare shelf Shelley Shelley's sometimes soul speak spirit strange sweet taste terrible things Thomas Hardy thrill tion touch tragic true truth turn Ulalume universe vision Walt Whitman Walter Pater wine women words writer