Vernon Lee, the pen name of Violet Paget, dedicates these studies to her first and earliest reader. They range from a child’s first encounter with the Vatican sculptures to the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and of Faustus and Helena, Hoffmann’s Kapellmeister Kreisler, Mozart’s Cherubino, a ramble in Umbria, and a sharp reckoning with Ruskin’s moral theory of art.
Elegant, argumentative essays from one of the subtlest English writers on aesthetics. Download the free EPUB.