| | 1 | Author: | Brawley, Benjamin | Add | | | Title: | The Negro Genius  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In his lecture on "The Poetic Principle," in leading down to his definition of
poetry, Edgar Allan Poe has called attention to the three faculties, intellect,
feeling, and will, and shown that poetry, that the whole realm of aesthetics in
fact, is concerned primarily and solely with the second of these. Does it
appeal to a sense of beauty? This is his sole test of a poem or of any work of
art, the aim being neither to appeal to the intellect by satisfying the reason or
inculcating truth, nor to appeal to the will by satisfying the moral sense or
inculcating duty. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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