ing pages may be claimed to have, therefore, must lie solely in the
attempt to effect a contact between the philosophy of art on the one
hand and a well defined chapter in the history of literary ideas on the
other, and, so far as possible, to see the one widened as the other is
deepened. My own position is that of the catalyst rather than of the
originator.

My thanks are due to the Committee for Advanced Studies and
to the Curators of the Taylorian Institution, both in the University
of Oxford, for financial aid towards publication of the present
volume, the latter by a grant from the Gerrans Memorial Fund.

I should like to place on record my gratitude for help and advice
in various stages of my work to Dr. E. Starkie, Professor P. Mansell-
Jones, Professor C. M. Bowra, Dr. R. Niklaus, and above all to
Professor G. Rudler, under whose guidance I originally designed this
book. For its shortcomings, of course, the responsibility is mine
alone.

A. G. LEHMANN.

Manchester

1948

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