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Since Auerbach’s measure of stylistic maturity values writing to the extent that it penetrates through local and individual human purpose to historicist truth, he naturally discounts the individual purposes of writers as impediments to the representation of truth. The more a writer includes and the less he selects according to his own purpose, the

Turner, Mark, Thomas, Francis-Noël • Clear and Simple as the Truth

According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.

Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education

Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot • Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation

What is the Poet, or Seer, as distinguished from the philosopher, the man of science, the politician, the tale-teller, and others with whom he has many points in common ? He is, indeed, a student as other students are, but he is emphatically the student who sees, who feels, who sings. The Poet, briefly described, is he whose existence constitutes a

Poetry is an essential part of society—but only as itself and not as a vehicle for something else.

Micah Mattix • The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

Sarah Perry • Enlightenment

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.