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Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the Editors of the following journals in which the essays in this volume first appeared: Home and Building (Afterthoughts on an Exhibition); Kiwi (Grasping the Nettle, The Poet's Progress); Landfall (The Culture Industry); Mate (The Temple of Academos); the New Zealand Listener (Spoken English, The Arts are Acquired Tastes, The Corruption of Taste, Artist and Common Man, The Sculpture of Henry Moore, About Frances Hodgkins).

Thanks are also due to Mr M. B. Yeats and to Macmillan & Co Ltd for permission to quote 'The Scholars' from Collected Poems, by W. B. Yeats; and to Mr R. A. K. Mason and the Pegasus Press for permission to quote 'After Death' and 'Sonnet of Brotherhood'.

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