Courage in Politics, and Other Essays, 1885-1896
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We need books of this tart cathartic virtue, said Emerson, of Plutarch, and it is because some of us believe this requirement to be eminently fulfilled in Coventry Patmore sprose that this further selection from it has been made. Every reader will confess its tart flavour :its cathartic virtue depends upon his ovvn good will: he must minister to himself if he can reject the temptation to throw the...
MoreWe need books of this tart cathartic virtue, said Emerson, of Plutarch, and it is because some of us believe this requirement to be eminently fulfilled in Coventry Patmore sprose that this further selection from it has been made. Every reader will confess its tart flavour :its cathartic virtue depends upon his ovvn good will: he must minister to himself if he can reject the temptation to throw the physic to the dogs. Patmore scriticism, literary, artistic, and political, was based upon considered principles, and it is in his statement of these, more than in his application of them, that the virtue of his criticism consists. He deprecated the merely subjective appreciation of books, and it is to mark the fact that the many essays on other viriters included here are not of that order that a small group of political articles is placed in the forefront; for in these it is the statement of principles only that can win any acceptance :the illustrations are from the vanished part of thirty-five years ago. QI nthe literary articles the principles he enunciates are those by which he would wish his own poetry toO Patmore sown selection from his prose-contributions to periodical literature may be found in the two little books, Principle in A rt, ic. (1889) and Religio Poetae, dc. (1893.
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