Robert Bridges — a remark

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“Let me explain why an artist is unwilling to discourse on his own art. The fact is that in every art it is only the formal side which can be formulated.”

Explaining why artists may resist reducing their creative work to theory · Address, The Necessity of Poetry, 1917

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Robert Bridges

23 October 1844–21 April 1930

Robert Seymour Bridges was born on 23 October 1844 at Walmer, near Deal in Kent, into a prosperous and cultivated English family whose security gave him both educational opportunity and, eventually, the independence to pursue literature without needing to earn his living from it. He was the fourth son of John Thomas…

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