Wraiths and Realities

Excerpt from Wraiths and Realities
The voicing of a preference for classicism, realism or romanticism is nearly always the conscious or unconscious preoccupation of critics of poetry. The classicist, wanting perfect beauty, stresses restraint - and is ever accused of praising what is academic or lacking in freedom or truth to life. The realist, stressing truth to life and minimizing restraint as to method or material, finds himself blamed for mistaking the mere raw material of life for ultimate art, and so for praising the sordid or commonplace. The romanticist, holding neither to restraint and mere beauty, nor to unrestraint and actuality, is prodded by both sides.
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