classicism

is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country... it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

A Classical style. . . is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country... it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience. James Joyce

 achieves its beauty as it is abraded and rubbed away, when it falls into ruin.

Classicism achieves its beauty as it is abraded and rubbed away, when it falls into ruin. the bird, the flower, the tree Intuition can only operate by an immediate contact with the thing. In poetry what in logic are called subjective and objective are united. There is no observer and thing observed, both are one; the poet is the bird, the flower, the tree, the Pope (Browning in “The Ring and the Book”), the ship (Coleridge in “The Ancient Mariner”), and anything else to which he is able to join himself. And if this union does not take place there can be no poetry.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

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classicism