AS A REPRESENTATIVE ART BY GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND, L.H.D. PROFESSOR OF ORATORY AND ÆSTHETIC CRITICISM IN THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY NEW YORK AND LONDON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1886 COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1886 ANBOTER THEOL. SERANARY FEB 291908 LIBRARY. — 57.684 Press of G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York PREFACE. THIS HIS work is intended to be complete in itself, developing from beginning to end the whole subject of which it treats. But this subject is a part of a larger one, connected with which are many underlying principles and practical inferences not mentioned here, although some of them, apparently, are not outside even of the limited range of discussion prescribed for this book by its title. To obviate the criticism which the omission of any reference to these may naturally occasion, it seems necessary to state that Poetry as a Representative Art is only one of a series of essays, most of which have been thought out, many written, and the whole, when completed, intended to present topics arranged somewhat as follows: The Distinction between Nature and Art-Between Useful and Esthetic Art-The different Theories held concerning the Latter, and their Effects upon its Products-The true Theory, its Philosophical Basis, and the Classification of the Arts as determined by it. The Fact of Representation, and its Bearings upon the Methods of the different ArtsPoetry as a representative Art (the present work)—Representation in Music-Painting-Sculpture-and Architec ture. |