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Updated: May 20, 2025
And yet there was no sound, only a half-sound, as of a horn blown in the far distance, or in a dream. Presently the point of a tall hat, and finally just such another little wizened face, poked out through the side of the haycock. "Can we hold revel here to-night?" asked the little green man.
The passage between the table and the long chair was narrow. But truly he was not stopping her so far as one might judge. She took her skirts about her with her left hand; stepped forward; was almost past the chair before he moved. Then he flung out a hand and caught her wrist, drawing her. "Now!" he cried, and his voice was thick. She gave a half-sound of dismay of fear; tried to twist free.
It is charlatanism, conscious or unconscious, whenever we confuse or obliterate these. And in poetry, more than anywhere else, it is unpermissible to confuse or obliterate them. For in poetry the distinction between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half-sound, true and untrue or only half-true, is of paramount importance.
But the consolation and stay will be of power in proportion to the power of the criticism of life. And the criticism of life will be of power in proportion as the poetry conveying it is excellent rather than inferior, sound rather than unsound or half-sound, true rather than untrue or half-true.
In poetry, which is thought and art in one, it is the glory, the eternal honor, that charlatanism shall find no entrance; that this noble sphere be kept inviolate and inviolable. Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half-sound, true and untrue or only half-true.
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