Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essays on Art
The poet had lost for a while his hold on the calm Spirit proper to all imaginative production, and which in plastic art receives its fullest expression. The rush and tumult of new passions, the rich outlook over new ideas, left him for a while at the mercy of his material, and in the sudden illumination Of men's minds it was indeed difficult to distinguish rightly between the beauty that would stay and the brightness that was only ?eeting.
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