liv SUMMARIES 



THE ART-PRINCIPLE AS REPRESENTED 

 IN POETRY 



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Introductory statement of the Problem and its Difficulties : the 



solution by an appeal to the Universal Principle of Art . 179 



I. The Essential Principle of Art, in general : reduction of 

 the usual antagonism between the Ideal and the Real 

 in the schools of ^-Esthetics, and arrival at their har- 

 mony in the Real-Ideal, the actual union between Idea 

 and Fact; Art the interpretation of the Fact in terms 

 of its quickening Idea ....... 181 



II. Further development and modification of this principle in 

 the light of the maxim that Ariis its own end : strictly 

 creative character of Art; but this does not mean its 

 right to do as it pleases; it cannot make the ugly, or 

 the guilty, or the vile, beautiful; essential correlation 

 between the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, as 

 expressions of the one Real-Ideal .... 187 



III. Exact distinction between the True, the Beautiful, and 



the Good : they form a strictly Triune Group, insepara- 

 ble; the ground of this in the indivisible Psychologic 

 Trinity in the soul — the unity of its emotion and its 

 will in its intelligence or reason; its final explanation 

 to be found only in the correlation between the rational 

 freedom of God and the rational freedom of man; 

 every work of art thus an embodied Theodicy . -194 



IV. Art, as the embodiment of the Beautiful, in its difference 



from Philosophy, whose aim is the True, and from 

 Religion, whose aim is the Good, has its essence turn 

 wholly on its form ; its proper theme always the same 

 indivisible Real-Ideal as theirs, always true and good, 

 but its form the form of Beauty — the address to our 

 Rational Capacity for Joy 201 



V. Application of these results to Poetry : the classification 

 of the Fine Arts; ascending series of Architecture, 

 Sculpture, Painting, Music, Poetry; the art of the 

 Poet the culmination of the principle ruling in all the 

 Fine Arts 204 



