Though I majored in English and Journalism in college, it was in studying Aesthetic Realism???in hearing tape recordings and dramatic readings of these lectures, and in hearing them quoted in public seminars and presentations???that I came to know and love such writers as George Eliot, Henry James, Fran??ois Mauriac, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, H.G. Wells, and the poets Walter Savag