The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-23
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Sow Why did John Dryden choose
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more '.an argument duuTesseu 10 the
public 30 a moment Oh great poiAeai
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eve may ASK ourselves perhaps why
any body uses poetry IL Is questloh
which sounds extremely ABSURD out Is
not 30 easy 10 answer as some OF you VIII
suppose, II is clearly hlueh more OK
tcult 90 Use verse than 10 use prose. fou
may say verse gives. Tor example pleas
vgt, u7'al.yzaole pleasure an unaecount-
aO., pleasure, which we get from melody.
Nob1i! hls ever explained why melody
800 Music p.cascs US. Neither psycholo-
Ests Io. psychologists have ever IN the
least as. 'a.uyd. AAd somethlnS OF the
zane s-,clountahie pleasure, unexplained
...a.ury, undoubtedly attaches to beau
No verse. Then in addition TO that
and beyond that there is always pleas.
urv .n seeing refractory material worked
BY the hand ~ a master. There is d
!, great satisfaction in seeing dinicuh
thing admirably done, and the ductllty
ct ,ae language brought up TO It's nigh
| IS, possible perfection must be a source
90 Qualification 20 everybody who really
understands one Of the pleasures, and
not ore Of the least OF the pleasures,
which literature Is capable OF giving us.
IN all.uon 10 that there is yet another
| reason.
Poetry permits, justifles and even en-
| coura gss the use Of ornament and decora-
| ton In enrichment In fact IL would be
on No. place. 0ut Of date. altogether super
| fuous and. indeed. injurious. in prose. And
o. yuu look 10 the poets who have tried
10 do what Dryden tried to do, namely
70 emJ1Iy reasoning. as far as reason
ing can be embodied in poetry, you will
Ind that they always have as a matter
% ~ ftcr enriched the argument by poetical
MATER more or less relevant but II the
Muster be "A great one, always delight
4 fIl"
Af'r' q charming and iluminative dl.
rrtgsl1r in which the lecturer considered
Dryasu and POPE he proceeded:
"Rg'. there !s another attribute o
ro .ry which Is relevant. | think. to tn,
~ lt.; trlued In verse, and that Is the
.Dwer ,f ,oruro slan the power OF pro-
drr'Hy Intensity which poetry possesses In
4 lt .T'- fly Seeding prose In Its ordi-
'ha--- AVID wrs. appropriate use. | am not
sIre that this quality of Intensity on
c4,0prcs -ton always receives sufficient at
'.U.'0n from critics and students OF liter
ature. Ii seems TO me 70 lie at the roo
~ much more than We are apt 10 think
j Men of science are quite familiar will
| the Idea that the amount Of time taken
ac-slera'iou. intensity that these thing,
are OF The utmost importance for account