The whole objection, however, of the immorality of poetry rests upon a misconception of the manner in which poetry acts to produce the...

Letter VII CAN this effect of harmony be attained by the state? That is not possible, for the state, as at present constituted, has...

Summoned in such consoling tones and invited with such kindness, like earthly Mercuries, we shall fly on winged feet to embrace that most...

Letter VI HAVE I gone too far in this portraiture of our times? I do not anticipate this stricture, but rather another—that I have...

Letter IV THUS much is certain. It is only when a third character, as previously suggested, has preponderance that a revolution in a...

Letter I BY your permission I lay before you, in a series of letters, the results of my researches upon beauty and art. I am keenly...

But how can anyone judge or love what he does not know? Moses loved the God whom he had seen and as judge of his people he administered...

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a...