English Poetry and Its Contribution to the Knowledge of a Creative Principle: With a Preface (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I have always remembered a distinction drawn by R. G. Colling wood at the beginning of The Principles of Art. He contrasts two types of theorist in the field of aesthetics: the 'philosopher aesthetician' and the 'artist-aesthetician', and draws attention to the different types Of error to which they are exposed. If I advert here to these two kinds Of theorist, it is because Signor Vivante seems to me to escape the mistakes of both, and because the dis tinction may help me to elucidate his particular merit.

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