Portraits and Speculations

Portraits and Speculations

Portraits and SpeculationsOf the Essays in this book, Art for Lifes Sake appeared in The English Review;...
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Author: Ransome, Arthur,1884-1967
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Portraits and Speculations

Portraits and Speculations

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Portraits and Speculations

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Author: Ransome, Arthur,1884-1967
Format: eBook
Language: English

Portraits and Speculations

Of the Essays in this book, Art for Lifes Sake appeared in The English Review; The Poetry of Yone Noguchi,1 Remy de Gourmont, and Aloysius Bertrand in The Fortnightly Review; Kinetic and Potential Speech, in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The papers on Daudet and Coppe were prefixed to collections of stories by these writers: I thank the publishers, Messrs. T.C. and E.C. Jack, for permission to reproduce them here. It is not yet fifty years since one or two men of genius, followed presently by a score of men of talent, noisier, shriller in voice than themselves, preached a theory of art new in this country, shocking to our prejudices at that time, and imported from some French artists and from a German philosopher. This was the doctrine of art for arts sake. Baudelaire had written: Poetry ... has no other end than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of a poem, as that which has been written solely for the pleasure of writing a poem. Whistler, that butterfly of letters, who had borrowed his sting from the wasp, directed it with gay despair against the granite face of the British public. Rossetti and, with certain qualifications, Pater, illustrated the theory in their practice, as Whistler did also; and4 Wilde, a little later than they, remarked: All art is quite useless, and There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65992
Author: Ransome, Arthur
Release Date: Aug 4, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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