Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Preface to the First Edition xxv
6. Preface to the Second Edition xxix
7. Virgil 1
8. Rudolf Borchardt on Virgil 18
9. Goethe as Critic 27
10. Goethe as Administrator 58
11. Fundamental Features of Goethe’s World 73
12. Friedrich Schlegel and France 92
13. Stefan George in Conversation 107
14. To the Memory of Hofmannsthal 129
15. George, Hofmannsthal, and Calderón 142
16. Hermann Hesse 169
17. New Encounter with Balzac 189
18. Emerson 211
19. Unamuno 228
20. Charles Du Bos 248
21. Ortega y Gasset 282
22. Ramón Pérez de Ayala 318
23. James Joyce and His Ulysses 327
24. Τ. S. Eliot 355
25. Toynbee’s Theory of History 400
26. Jorge Guillén 429
27. Remarks on the French Novel 437
28. The Young Cocteau 446
29. William Goyen 456
30. The Ship of the Argonauts 465
31. Appendix 497
32. Index 503