Poetry And National Character the Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered At Cambridge
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This, too, we may claim, and with great assurance, that in trusting to their own NATIONAL CHARACTER 17 experiences and reflexions our poets and men of letters drew upon the only authentic sources of inspiration, and that the strength of our poetry is due to this trust. The best school for poetry as for everything else is the school of personal experience. We may say mth truth that the fortune of our literature was made by attendance on this school, we may praise our writers for their originalit...y and variety, but there are other qualities for which we cannot praise them. Too frequently they lack, and our most friendly critics complain of it, restraint, lucidity, finish, shapeliness. Allow that inspiration is less frequently wanting, yet he who trusts to inspiration, one discovers, too often trusts to improvisation, and how much of our poetry is little better than improvisation. And so foreign critics speak, to our surprise, of " the rude but splendid Muse of the Britons. " If we expect from a book that it should partake of the character of a work of art — and we should expect it — that it should resemble a picture or a statue, a chapel rather than 18 POETRY AND an outhouse or barn, then we require a finished product which excludes the ill- considered, the irrelevant, the haphazard ; we require a respect for words, we ask that it should avoid verbosity and save our time.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This, too, we may claim, and with great assurance, that in trusting to their own NATIONAL CHARACTER 17 experiences and reflexions our poets and men of letters drew upon the only authentic sources of inspiration, and that the strength of our poetry is due to this trust. The best school for poetry as for everything else is the school of personal experience. We may say mth truth that the fortune of our literature was made by attendance on this school, we may praise our writers for their originalit...y and variety, but there are other qualities for which we cannot praise them. Too frequently they lack, and our most friendly critics complain of it, restraint, lucidity, finish, shapeliness. Allow that inspiration is less frequently wanting, yet he who trusts to inspiration, one discovers, too often trusts to improvisation, and how much of our poetry is little better than improvisation. And so foreign critics speak, to our surprise, of " the rude but splendid Muse of the Britons. " If we expect from a book that it should partake of the character of a work of art — and we should expect it — that it should resemble a picture or a statue, a chapel rather than 18 POETRY AND an outhouse or barn, then we require a finished product which excludes the ill- considered, the irrelevant, the haphazard ; we require a respect for words, we ask that it should avoid verbosity and save our time.
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