The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doin…

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one wh…