This recognition of the truth we get in the artists work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring to the sort of patronizing recognition we give a writer by nodding our heads and observing, Yes, yes, very good, very truethats just what Im always saying. I mean the recognition of a truth that tells us something about ourselves that we had not been always saying, something that puts a new knowledge of ourselves withint our grasp. It is new, startling, and perhaps shattering, and yet it comes to us with a sense of familiarity. We did not know it before, but the moment the poet has shown it to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always really known it.
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About Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers was a 19th-century English novelist, translator and christian writer. Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society