[Summary and contrast between poetry and the other
particular arts. Its relation to the other two romantic
arts. Absence of all external sensuous presence.
Poetry appeals to imaginative vision. Not so direct as
sense-perception. Advantage over painting through its
ability to display facts in their historical succession or
natural process. Far profounder and more extended embrace
of world of idea than in music; due to its greater power
of definition in speech and its use of tone merely as a
subordinate instrument. The content of poetry is the ideal
envisagement of imaginative content itself. Everything made
intelligible by language may form part of content, subject
to the condition that it is poetical. Analysis of what
this condition implies. The imagination of artist must be
Contributive; distinction from mere prose consciousness and
thinking. In its entire independence of the material of
sense it may be defined as the universal art. The material
is the imagination, and as such conjoint with all the arts.
It is, however, not the only art open to philosophical
review on this ground. It marks, however, the commencement
of the disintegration of Art, its bridge of passage to the
notion of religion and philosophical thought]