SPENDER, STEPHEN. — The Creative Element.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 1st edition. A Study of Vision, Despair and Orthodoxy among some Modern Writers. Contents:I.The Visionary Individualists; II.the Necessity of Being Absolutely Modern; III.Rilke and the Angels, Eliot and the Shrines; IV.Personal Relations and Public Powers; V.Pioneering the Instinctive Life; VI.Hammered Gold and Gold Enamelling of Humanity; VII.Anti-Vision and Despair; VIII.The Theme of Political Orthodoxy in the "Thirties"; IX.The World of Evelyn Waugh; X.The New Orthodoxies. Pp.199. Red cloth has edgewear, dustwrapper spotted with tears and losses to much of spine. G+/Poor.