“The poetic drama is, indeed, not so much a representation of a theme as a meditation upon it or a distillation from it; its business is far less the simulation of life than the evocation and isolation for our delight of the elements of beauty and spiritual illumination in the perhaps terrible and always serious theme chosen.”

Defining verse drama as contemplative distillation rather than realistic imitation · Essay, Poetry and the Contemporary Theatre (1934)

• Beauty
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