art-sense

Updated: June 24, 2025

They are natural in this way: when the poet is engaged upon his work, these delicate fancies and choice expressions throng into his mind; he instantly, by his Art-sense, accepts some, and rejects more; and those he accepts are such as he wants for his ulterior purpose, which will not admit the appearance of art; hence he will have none that do not grow out of his feeling and harmonize with it.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859