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A Defence of Poetry - Part IV
The whole objection, however, of the immorality of poetry rests upon a misconception of the manner in which poetry acts to produce the...
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Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part IV
Letter VII CAN this effect of harmony be attained by the state? That is not possible, for the state, as at present constituted, has...
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Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part IV
Summoned in such consoling tones and invited with such kindness, like earthly Mercuries, we shall fly on winged feet to embrace that most...
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Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part III
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...
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Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part II
Letter IV THUS much is certain. It is only when a third character, as previously suggested, has preponderance that a revolution in a...
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Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part I
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...