This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... insight of his general views on poetry.1 " If we are to appreciate good poetry," he writes, " we must awaken all our reason, and not merely give way to our emotions.... What the poet asks you to do is not to take an opiate that will dull your intellect, but, in fact, to lay aside your preoccupation in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... insight of his general views on poetry.1 " If we are to appreciate good poetry," he writes, " we must awaken all our reason, and not merely give way to our emotions.... What the poet asks you to do is not to take an opiate that will dull your intellect, but, in fact, to lay aside your preoccupation in the trivialities of life, to disentangle yourself from the temporal and the accidental...." And again: " The test of the true value of poetry to us lies in its power to convince us not merely as sentient but also as intelligent beings." What is to be thought of the respective merits of these two views? I think one must recognize that while there are exaggerations on both sides, a moderate statement of what is true in each will bring us near the full truth. Let us look first from the view-point of Mr Lamborn and the school for which he speaks. Poetry is indeed an art. Its primary aim, then, is to impart aesthetic pleasure through its presentation of the beautiful. 1 E. de S61incourt, The Study of Poetry, 1918. Instruction, improvement, teaching are therefore not the primary aim of poetry.1 So much is clear. Again, from the poet's point of view the exercise of his art is largely dependent upon that mood which we call inspiration, upon those moments when, kindled by some emotion or some great idea, the imagination catches fire and the whole intellectual and sensitive being is raised to the pitch where the thought naturally utters itself in poetry. Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers. Then, as we have said, the music of language answers to the music of the mind. Now such a mood is wholly different from the calm deliberate frame of mind in which a man sits down with pen in hand to expound some intellectual theory or to circulate some moral...
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