Longfellow Memorial Address
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Every Muse averts her face. At best, it is only artificiality and outside. Mere facts and forms, however real, have no value in themselves. Their value lies in their generic or representative character, in the ideas they express, in the meaning they convey ; and if the realist replies that he sets the facts and forms truthfully before us, and lets them speak for themselves, I answer, to what purpose, then, his work ? Nature and experience are continually pre senting naked, ordinary facts and fo...rms before all men, and leaving them to speak for themselves; and what does he add to this ? Does he reply that art consists in the imitation of nature ? But mere imitation is the part of a monkey, not of a poet. Does he finally appeal to the sculptor in his defence ? Eead Winckelmann on the Apollo di Belvedere. It is not all facts and forms that are naturally poetic. To the mass of men, the most of them are dumb, they have no speech, they convey no meaning. If the realist has made a good selection, he has so far performed the office of the poet ; for a good selection means that he presents, not merely the trivial and the ordinary at hazard, but chooses that which will HENRY W.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Every Muse averts her face. At best, it is only artificiality and outside. Mere facts and forms, however real, have no value in themselves. Their value lies in their generic or representative character, in the ideas they express, in the meaning they convey ; and if the realist replies that he sets the facts and forms truthfully before us, and lets them speak for themselves, I answer, to what purpose, then, his work ? Nature and experience are continually pre senting naked, ordinary facts and fo...rms before all men, and leaving them to speak for themselves; and what does he add to this ? Does he reply that art consists in the imitation of nature ? But mere imitation is the part of a monkey, not of a poet. Does he finally appeal to the sculptor in his defence ? Eead Winckelmann on the Apollo di Belvedere. It is not all facts and forms that are naturally poetic. To the mass of men, the most of them are dumb, they have no speech, they convey no meaning. If the realist has made a good selection, he has so far performed the office of the poet ; for a good selection means that he presents, not merely the trivial and the ordinary at hazard, but chooses that which will HENRY W.
What to read after Longfellow Memorial Address?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Daniel Raynes Goodwin to read onlineMoreLess
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