Let me interpose here this axiom of criticism: by explaining the nature of a work of art, we do not explain it away. It is an entity of direct appeal; we do not, in the process of appreciation…unfold the process of creation.
—Herbert Read, Form in Modern Poetry (Sheed & Ward, 1933)
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