It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Both errors tend to make him 'personal.' Po…

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the p…