The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry (Classic Reprint)

The valu2 of these attempts has most often been in the suggestive and penetrating things said by the way. Such discussions I ielp us very little to enjoy what has been veil done in art or poetrv, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative ;nd the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty, not in the most abstract but in the most concrete terms possible, to find not its universal formula, bat the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true stuclert of aesthetics.
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