The Making of Poetry a Critical Study of Its Nature And Value
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The statement bespeaks the revealing power of the master poet to another poet, of ends and ideals in life which would doubtless otherwise have been unknown. For the average reader this is still more true. As he beholds Othello and Des- demona lying in death while Iago lives, he discovers, perhaps for the first time, that the worst fate is not, like Othello and Desdemona, to suffer and die, but, like Iago, to be blind to love and beauty, and to be so circumscribed in character as to be incapable... of suffering. He sees, as he follows Kent in King Lear, that self-sacrifice is not always the last word of duty, but that it may be the expression of a refined and unconscious egotism, amounting to sentimen- tality, and that life demands the exercise of good judgment as well as of good motives. As he fol- lows Henry the Fifth he discovers that "There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out." As he follows Prospero he realises that knowledge is noble only when it serves, that duty comes before one's rights, that "the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance"; he realises that 1 84 The Making of Poetry "...
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