Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

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...

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...

Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...

Who then will not look with awe upon this our chameleon, or who, at least, will look with greater admiration on any other being? This...

Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action, are all the instruments and materials of poetry; they may be called...