Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) PRINCIPLE IN ART ETC. PRINCIPLE IN ART ETC. BY COVENTRY PATMORE LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1889 PREFACE With one exception, namely the last Paper in the Collection, which appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_, all these Essays were printed in the _St. James’s Gazette_ during the editorship of Mr. Greenwood. The Essay on “Architectural Styles” contains a summary of principles which I stated, some thirty years ago, in various Articles, chiefly in the _Edinburgh Review_. As this Essay now stands, I hope that readers, who have knowledge enough to enable them to judge, will find in it an example of the kind of criticism which I have advocated earlier in the volume. COVENTRY PATMORE. CONTENTS ESSAY PAGE I. PRINCIPLE IN ART 1 II. REAL APPREHENSION 6 III. SEERS, THINKERS, AND TALKERS 14 IV. POSSIBILITIES AND PERFORMANCES 25 V. CHEERFULNESS IN LIFE AND ART 31 VI. THE POINT OF REST IN ART 37 VII. IMAGINATION 43 VIII. PATHOS 49 IX. POETICAL INTEGRITY 56 X. THE POETRY OF NEGATION 62 XI. THE LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS 67 XII. LOVE AND POETRY 72 XIII. KEATS 80 XIV. WHAT SHELLEY WAS 87 XV. BLAKE 97 XVI. ROSSETTI AS A POET 103 XVII. MR. SWINBURNE’S SELECTIONS 112 XVIII. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 118 XIX. EMERSON 125 XX. CRABBE AND SHELLEY 134 XXI. SHALL SMITH HAVE A STATUE? 141 XXII. IDEAL AND MATERIAL GREATNESS IN ARCHITECTURE 146