Studies in Frankness
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Beauty is his cult ; poetry for him is "the rhythmical creation of beauty. " He is neither preacher nor historian. Being an artist, he esteems facts as lightly as morals. Art, he says, has "no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth. " A poem is written solely for the poem's sake. " Per- 180 STUDIES IN FRANKNESS severance, " again, " is one thing, genius quite another ;" and the public has as little to do with the industry as with the inspiration of the artist. To us who have lived thro...ugh the dark age of naturalism his passage upon Truth rings like a prophecy : " The demands of Truth, " he writes in The Poetic Principle^ " are severe ; she has no sympathy with the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable in Song, is precisely all that with which she has nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreath her in gems and flowers. " Even more precise and bitter is his epigrammatic indictment of Realism. "The defenders of this pitiable stufF" — you will find the lines in Marginalia — " uphold it on the ground of its truthfulness.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Beauty is his cult ; poetry for him is "the rhythmical creation of beauty. " He is neither preacher nor historian. Being an artist, he esteems facts as lightly as morals. Art, he says, has "no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth. " A poem is written solely for the poem's sake. " Per- 180 STUDIES IN FRANKNESS severance, " again, " is one thing, genius quite another ;" and the public has as little to do with the industry as with the inspiration of the artist. To us who have lived thro...ugh the dark age of naturalism his passage upon Truth rings like a prophecy : " The demands of Truth, " he writes in The Poetic Principle^ " are severe ; she has no sympathy with the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable in Song, is precisely all that with which she has nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreath her in gems and flowers. " Even more precise and bitter is his epigrammatic indictment of Realism. "The defenders of this pitiable stufF" — you will find the lines in Marginalia — " uphold it on the ground of its truthfulness.
What to read after Studies in Frankness?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Whibley, Charles, 1859-1930 to read onlineMoreLess
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