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A geniu
is obstruction only if it is circumscribed.
its own limitations and other geniuses meet wit
obstructions within the same limitations. Volum
water flow through the same bed of the river season
season until the entire course is changed on accou
some geological convulsions or through some
causes. It is not right to say that the previous com
the river was wrong. Similarly geniuses take diff
courses in different ages and it is not right to se
against the other or to try to arrange them in
regular order of gradation. Each has to be judge
his own standards.
In every form of art there must be some sc
order and arrangement. Wherever there is orden
arrangement, it is possible to generalise, to form
certain rules and definitions. Art does not trans
definitions and rules; it is flexible enough to be
those rules and forms without squeezing, without mi
tion. Just as every new volume of water in the
cessive seasons slightly alters the bank without l
compelled to restrict its course within stone banks
at the same time without changing the course ent
geniuses also can adapt themselves to existing fo
altering the form only to that extent which is absol
necessary for its freedom.
To say that the spirit of romantic poetry i
freedom of genius to express itself in any form it ]
is only to make a statement of something which is
of the spirit of all poetry. There may be a differ
in form, but the spirit of freedom is inherent i
A geniu
is obstruction only if it is circumscribed.
its own limitations and other geniuses meet wit
obstructions within the same limitations. Volum
water flow through the same bed of the river season
season until the entire course is changed on accou
some geological convulsions or through some
causes. It is not right to say that the previous com
the river was wrong. Similarly geniuses take diff
courses in different ages and it is not right to se
against the other or to try to arrange them in
regular order of gradation. Each has to be judge
his own standards.
In every form of art there must be some sc
order and arrangement. Wherever there is orden
arrangement, it is possible to generalise, to form
certain rules and definitions. Art does not trans
definitions and rules; it is flexible enough to be
those rules and forms without squeezing, without mi
tion. Just as every new volume of water in the
cessive seasons slightly alters the bank without l
compelled to restrict its course within stone banks
at the same time without changing the course ent
geniuses also can adapt themselves to existing fo
altering the form only to that extent which is absol
necessary for its freedom.
To say that the spirit of romantic poetry i
freedom of genius to express itself in any form it ]
is only to make a statement of something which is
of the spirit of all poetry. There may be a differ
in form, but the spirit of freedom is inherent i