The Progress of Poesy ; An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre On the 10th March 1906
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Such conceptions belong to a scheme of thought based on the idea of a finite machine-made world. Once this conception has given way, as it has done or is doing in every province of human thought, to that of an organic vital process moving under the control of laws which are themselves vital, organic, progressive, the question of defining poetry, either from abstract principles or by induction of instances, becomes almost meaningless. We do not now profess to define poetry any more than we profe...ss to teach it. All attempts to do so have obviously come short ; and in no case would I venture to add another failure to the list, and so to demonstrate, at once and for all, my unfitness for this Chair. But if poetry be, as it is, the highest expression of the essential truth of things; if it have, as it has, the power ascribed to it in Gray's Ode, to control care and passion, to solace or dispel the ills of life, to accompany and inspire all high impulse, all noble B 2 20 THE PROGRESS OF POESY effort, all profound emotion, it will no more require a definition than an apology.
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Such conceptions belong to a scheme of thought based on the idea of a finite machine-made world. Once this conception has given way, as it has done or is doing in every province of human thought, to that of an organic vital process moving under the control of laws which are themselves vital, organic, progressive, the question of defining poetry, either from abstract principles or by induction of instances, becomes almost meaningless. We do not now profess to define poetry any more than we profe...ss to teach it. All attempts to do so have obviously come short ; and in no case would I venture to add another failure to the list, and so to demonstrate, at once and for all, my unfitness for this Chair. But if poetry be, as it is, the highest expression of the essential truth of things; if it have, as it has, the power ascribed to it in Gray's Ode, to control care and passion, to solace or dispel the ills of life, to accompany and inspire all high impulse, all noble B 2 20 THE PROGRESS OF POESY effort, all profound emotion, it will no more require a definition than an apology.
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