That Mighty Sculptor Time

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian Tantrism the feasts of the Christian year Durer the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda the eternal spirit of Andalusia and Bede''s Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider''s time''s transforming effect on arrt meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new sublime work of art.