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433.- 'Biog. Lit.; Works, III. 452. * lb. , p. 459. 5 Literary Remains, II. 378. 184 The Evolution of MiffUsh Criticism. higher gift of the imagination; "other men's worlds are his chaos " till they be brought into harmony by that ruling power. The imagination, " the living power and prime agent of all human perception," ^ is subject to a law no less severe than were the straitest rules of the old criticism. But the law itself has changed its character ; the conception of an external rule has y...ielded to an idea of law as the very power of growth and pro- duction ; " could a rule be given from without, poetry would cease to be poetry, and sink into a mechanical art. The new criticism, like the old, declares taste to be supreme ; but taste is now the intuition of creative genius, acting in unconscious harmony with intellectual law, and educating the world to a finer perception. The recognition of this higher law appears in the new stress laid on the sanity of genius. The poet, no longer the mere master of knowledge or the victim of an overwrought sensibility, finds in his own genius the law of perfect harmony.
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