THE PHILOSOPHY OF

FINE ART

BY

G. W. F. HEGEL

TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES, BY

F. P. B. OSMASTON, B.A.

AUTHOR OF "THE ART AND GENIUS OF TINTORET," "AN ESSAY
ON THE FUTURE OF POETRY," AND OTHER WORKS

VOL IV

LONDON

G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

1920

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV

SUBSECTION III

THE ROMANTIC ARTS—continued

CHAPTER III

POETRY

Introduction     3

[Summary and contrast between poetry and the otherparticular arts. Its relation to the other two romanticarts. Absence of all external sensuous presence.Poetry appeals to imaginative vision. Not so direct assense-perception. Advantage over painting through itsability to display facts in their historical succession ornatural process. Far profounder and more extended embraceof world of idea than in music; due to its greater powerof definition in speech and its use of tone merely as asubordinate instrument. The content of poetry is the idealenvisagement of imaginative content itself. Everything madeintelligible by language may form part of content, subjectto the condition that it is poetical. Analysis of whatthis condition implies. The imagination of artist must beContributive; distinction from mere prose consciousness andthinking. In its entire independence of the material ofsense it may be defined as the universal art. The materialis the imagination, and as such conjoint with all the arts.It is, however, not the only art open to philosophicalreview on this ground. It marks, however, the commencementof the disintegration of Art, its bridge of passage to thenotion of religion and philosophical thought]     3

Subdivision of subject-matter   17

I. Poetical composition as distinguished from that of Prose  19

1. The poetical and prosaic composition   20

(a) The world of natural or prosaic fact relativelyexcluded. Primarily what it deals with is the infinitedomain of Spirit and the energies of its life   21

(b) Distinction between poetical and prosaic conception   21

[(α) Poetical anterior to the prosaic form of artisticspeech. It is the original imaginative grasp of truth. Datesfrom first effort of man at self-expression. Endeavours tomake that expression of a higher virtue than mere prose   22

(β) The kind of prose life from which poetry is separatepostulates a different kind of conception and speech. Thefinite categories of the understanding applicable to theformer. The ideal rationale of fact is aimed at by poetry.Its affinity with and distinction from pure thought   23

(γ) Difference between the relation of poetic conceptionto prosaic in early times and more modern, where the prosaicform of life has become st

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