... and Whistler. Above all, poetry was not statement or felt sensation, but 'art'. In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot. He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like ... novelist Raymond Williams. In the twentieth century, Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas have become internationally known poets, and Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was a worldwide bestselle...

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... and hence poetry – provides access to the "real", the forces that lie behind our very lives. Ancient Greek thought held that poetry, drama, and other forms of fine art were imitations of reality, a reality that could be actual or potential. Indeed, their phrase for what we think ... this recalls Aristotle's theories on the organic, where living beings are conceptualized as matter (=body) and form (=soul). Importantly, however, Aristotle recognizes that the study of matter is not completely subservient to eidos, or form: "art imitates nature, and it is the part of the same discipline t...

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