The English Renaissance of Art, by Oscar Wilde, Part 1
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The Art of the Poets
The place occupied by spontaneity or self-consciousness in any artistic work had a peculiar fascination to the Greeks. The heart contains passion, but the imagination alone contains poetry, says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theo Field Gautier, most subtle of all modern critics, most fascinating of all modern poets, was never tired of teaching. In this century it is rather against the claims of the emotional faculties, the claims of mere sentiment and feeling that the artist must react.
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