Poetry v. science

Barfield thinks it’s disastrous to oppose poetry and science “as two fundamentally opposite modes of experiencing Life.” Among other things, it spoils art: “For it leads straight to that Crocean conception of art as meaningless emotion – as personal emotion symbolized – which is so poisonous in its charter to all kinds of posturing and conceited egotism.”

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