>> And if there's anywhere these things can be explored, it's
>> literature, which as Coleridge says, is a way to develop the moral
>> imagination.
>
>"Poetry - excites us to artifical feelings - makes us callous to real
>ones" - STC.
>
Which poetry?
Don't feel like trawling Samuel's drawers (if I ever felt so inclined)
for a context or counterquote. Mine is from his argument about the
difference between fancy and imagination: would "artificial feelings"
refer to his idea of fancy?
And also causes me to reflect that it might be perhaps an allegation more
accurately levelled at certain novels - Dickens, for example, whom
Kundera describes as having the kind of sentimentality which disguises a
complete absence of feeling. I think the only thing that is real about
poetry is feeling.
But I don't feel up to saying what I mean by "feeling".
Best
Alison
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