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|\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n\n808.1  \nD330p  \nLAKELAND COLLEGE LIBRARYSHEBOYGAN,WISCONSIN  \n062541  \n人LISd3AIN∩GNV73YV7人dVdal7HOS3QdVOSIQ  \n# THE\n\nPOET’S WAY OFKNOWLEDGE  \nBY  \nC.DAY LEWIS  \nC.B.E.,M.A.  \nSometime Professor of Poetry in theUniversity of Oxford  \nTHE HENRY SIDGWICKMEMORIAL LECTURE,I9S6  \nCAMBRIDGE  \nAT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nI957  \n062541  \n808.1  \nD330p  \n# A-Day\n\nONCE upon a time poetry and science were one,andits name was Magic.Magic,for our earliestancestors,was the most effective wayof under-standing nature and their fellow-men,and of gainingpower over them.It was not till some three centuriesago that science finally broke away from magic:thescientific revolution of the seventeenth century with-drew from the‘supernatural'as a field of study;and ifscience since then has led to other varieties of super-stition,wemust blame,notthescientists,butthelayman,who finds superstition a difficult thing to live without.The course of poetry has been different.If the first greatpre-scientifichypothesis was animism,and the first greatpre-scientific method was imitation,then poetry,in sofar as it still rests upon imitation and animism,mustseem a very primitive procedure.  \nNevertheless,I believe poetry to be a possible way ofgaining and imparting knowledge—a son of the samefather as science:the brothers may quarrel from time totime,but each in his ownfield they are working towardscompatible ends.To define the field of poetry shouldmake it clear in what sense we may claim that poetry isconcerned with knowledge.This I shalltry to do.AndI shall also suggest that there are remarkable affinitiesbetween the method of the scientist and the method ofthe poet—between the ways their minds work,particu-larly at one crucial stage of their investigations.  \nAlthough no one has ever succeeded in definingpoetry,there have been many praiseworthy attempts tosay what poetry is for.These have always been boundedby two extremes—the idea of poetry as an end in itself,and the idea of poetry as a means.In the I89o's,forexample,reacting no doubt against the prevalent utili-tarianism of their day,poets proclaimed Art for Art'ssake’.Poetry should be a ritual,a mystique,detachedfrom morality,from the factual and the topical,fromany religious preaching or scientific teaching:its jobwas to be beautiful,and useless.The young Yeatscould deplore ‘that brooding over scientific opinionwhich’,he believed,had‘extinguished the centralfame in Tennyson'.And it is noticeable that thismanifestation took place ata time when science,flushedwith a century of practical success,had got rather aboveitself and was claiming the whole world of know-ledge,achieved or potential,as its own.Let me quotefrom a popular handbook of science first published inI892:  \nThere is no short cut to truth,no way to gain aknowledgeof the universe except through the gateway of scientificmethod.The hard and stony path of classifying facts andreasoning upon them is the only way to ascertain truth.It isthe reason and not the imagination which must ultimatelybe appealed to.The poet may give us in sublime language anaccount of the origin and purport of the universe,but in theend it will not satisfy our aesthetic judgment,our idea ofharmony and beauty,like the few facts which the scientistmay venture to tell us in the same field.  \nNowonder,faced withsuchadelugeof complacency,there was a scramble for the summit of pure poetry.Tothe passageIhavejust quoted—and it does not representthe scientific attitude today—one might reply like this:Let us suppose that,not a ‘few facts’,but everythingthere is to be known about the oceans had been dis-covered by hydrographers,marine biologists and therest;and let us suppose that psychologists and neuro-logist","cbCainKtDmvAwWzq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainKtDmvAwWzq","pdf",2390354,"English","# The Poet’s 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