The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516858446)

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 satisfy 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.

Author: Benjamin Griffith Brawley
ISBN-10: 1516858441
ISBN-13: 9781516858446
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2015
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d