This significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T S Eliot, W H Auden and Stephen Spender among others to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.

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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
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Introduction
1 Female Beauty and Portraits of Self-Effacement in Charlotte Brontë's
2 Dickens and the Line of Beauty
3 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial
4 The Beauties of T. S. Eliot
5 'The Enigmatical Beauty of Each Beautiful Enigma': The Persistence of Beauty and Death in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens
6 W. H. Auden: The Loveliness that Is the Case
7 Something in the Works: Frost, Bishop and the Idea of Beauty
8 The Difficulty of Beauty: Hopkins, Yeats, Hart Crane, Spender
9 'Beauty in Trouble': Robert Graves and Louis MacNeice
10 Beauty Is Death
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