IX. LITERATURE AND ART
(a) George Santayana, Art and Happiness, in "The Life of Reason," Vol. IV: 1. What is Art? 2. The position of literature among the arts. 3. What art needs at the present day. (b) Walter Bagehot, On Wordsworth, in "Essay on Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning:" The nature of pure art. (c) Matthew Arnold, Wordsworth, in "Essays in Criticism:" A comparison of Arnold's main thesis in regard to Wordsworth with Bagehot's; see (b) above. (d) G.H. Lewes, The Principle of Sincerity, in "The Principles of Success in Literature:" The relation between sincerity and success in literature. (e) Thomas Carlyle, Dante, in "On Heroes and Hero-Worship:" 1. The chief differences between Dante and Shakespeare (see page 423). 2. How the principle of sincerity (see (d) above) is illustrated in the case of Dante. (f) P.B. Shelley, Defence of Poetry: A comparison of Shelley's attitude toward poetry with Bradley's (page 389). (g) G.L. Dickinson, Chapter IV in the "Greek View of Life" (the part preceding the section reprinted in the present volume): How the principles determining the nature of Greek tragedy appear also in the other Greek arts. (h) S.H. Butcher, What we Owe to Greece, in "Some Aspects of Greek Genius:" Ideals we have inherited from the Greeks. (i) A.C. Bradley, The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy, in "Shakespearean Tragedy:" The conception of the relations between good and evil which appears in Shakespeare's tragedies. (j) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (translated by Gilbert Murray): A comparison of the theme of this tragedy with the theme of Shakespeare's Richard III, Macbeth, or Lear.