ABSTRACT

Extracts from Basil de Selincourt, ‘The Problem of the Form’, Walt Whitman: A Critical Study (1914), pp. 55–72, 74–5, 78–83, 87–9, 91–3.

Among Basil de Selincourt’s books are: Giotto (London, 1905), William Blake (London, 1909), The English Secret, and other essays (London, 1923), Pomona, or the future of English (London, 1926) and Anne D. Sedgewick, a portrait in letters (London, 1936), Basil de Selincourt.

See Introduction, pp. 13–14.