The adventures of the soul; The sacred groves; The guarded secrets; The disputes of the flute-players / Anatole France -- The criticism of contemporaries; Personality in criticism; Tradition and love / Jules Lemaître -- The self and the world; Literary influences; Vision and emotion; Form and substance / Remy de Gourmont -- Aphorisms on art; Aphorisms on the drama / Friedrich Hebbel -- The creative imagination; Experience and creation / Wilhelm Dilthey -- The philosophical implications of tragedy / Johannes Volkelt -- The modern poet / Richard Moritz Meyer -- The hidden poet; The poet and his hearer / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal -- Creative art in life / Richard Mueller-Freienfels -- The critic as creator / Alfred Kerr -- The villa and English literature / George Moore -- The sources of idealism; The new spirit in literature / George Bernard Shaw -- On prose and verse; The independence of poetry / Arthur Symons -- Some platitudes concerning drama; Art / John Galsworthy -- A poet and his people; English literary criticism / Arnold Bennett -- Sincerity and literature / W.L. George -- Ireland and the new paths / Thomas MacDonagh -- Suspended judgment / John Cooper Powys -- Concerning critics; The lawbreaker / James Huneker -- Art as expression; The seven arts and the seven confusions / Joel Elias Spingarn -- Homiletics of criticism; The critic's function; The puritan and American literature / Henry Louis Mencken -- Literature and life; A note on tragedy / Ludwig Lewisohn -- The sickbed of culture / Francis Hackett -- An external civilization; The fear of experience; Unpractical critics / Van Wyck Brooks -- A literary radical / Randolph Bourne.