"Luminious and poignant...David Carrier writes of these three aesthetes' concern with 'perception as a way of knowing.' The emphasis is well placed." -- Burlington Magazine
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction: England and its Aesthetes; Part 2 Essays, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes; Chapter 2 Selection from Praeterita, John Ruskin; Chapter 3 The Child in the House, Walter Pater; Chapter 4 Inside Out, Adrian Stokes;