Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Poetry in Its Relation to Painting and the Other Arts, Vol. 8
All the arts of man spring from a single well of inspiration. They spring from the deep impulse and desire to create an ideal world more true to our real selves, more adequate to our innate conceptions, than anything we can achieve in actual existence. In the affairs of life, circumstances are so obstinate and hindering, human relations so intricate, that even the finest and the strongest spirits have to accept much compromise and failure. But in the innocent and disinterested world of art mankind breathes freer, sees clearer, and comes nearer to the life it would like to live. The unifying principle of all the arts is rhythm; for the movement of life, unimpeded by circumstances, is naturally rhythmical, and art expresses life at its fullest and most intense.
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