Download or read book The Persistence of Beauty written by Mark Sandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.