Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Introduction 11
5. PART I. The Creative Temperament 25
6. PART II. The Writer in Time
7. 1. Obscure Beginnings 59
8. 2. From Barbarism to Young Culture 69
9. 3. The Vocation 111
10. 4. The Enlightened Vocation 129
11. 5. In the Age of Reason 168
12. 6. From Rousseau to Proust 186
13. Postscript to Part II 238
14. PART III. Some Texts
15. 1. Tristan; Perceval 245
16. 2. Rimbaud 267
17. 3. Proust’s Way 327
18. Appendices
19. I. Poetry of Light and Radiant Darkness 401
20. II. A Note on the Idea of Progress in Art 421
21. III. Some Pre-Critical Concepts 424
22. Bibliography 431
23. Index 437