![]() ![]() ![]() This verse which casts off shackles of old form and claims for itself a new freedom fiction which confines itself to putting down without bias that which the novelist has actually observed in life drama which presents flashes of that which the dramatist has seen and felt, without the binding relationship of inevitability and the renunciation of the irrelevant, characteristic of great drama of old, are, after all, but negatively bold, daring only in the matter of externals, and almost pusillanimous in regard to the sterner demands of art. In following all this progress one cannot help being struck by a certain boldness of critical claim and manifesto, a certain timidity, usually, in the art product. ![]() Minor thistledown creeds of the last few years, such as futurism, it is hardly necessary to mention the great winds of life have already blown them away. But yesterday that which was called realism in drama and fiction carried the banner to-day it is the new poetry. ONE by one in recent years various new theories of literary practice have been put before us, all wearing a brave air as of triumphing revolutionists, and filled with prophecy of art marching on to new conquests. ![]()
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