In "The Poet as Citizen." rece* issued from the Cambridge Uni' sity Press, Sir Arthur Qufller-Co restates his philosophy of life art in one paragraph: Pupils and reader? of mine > be well aware—perhaps arc weary—of my old insistence tha some interpretation of platonic mony must lie the secret of the * verse and of life itself: and, if ot on this planet, then of poetry, ta' it with the ultra-Newtonian "law spirit as surely as matter attracts ter. I insist on it because I bel in it, because it compels and cuncj me by its noble sirr.plici?."': and. lieving, I must i:se the wit and the platform runted" in. pioclaim il—here and :io..\ principle of poetry, hccausi-. u!t;pthe principle of religion and ;■
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 17
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