by permitting analysis and criticism
to become the primary mood, or one
may develop it by resolutely putting
analysis and criticism into the secon-
dary place, and sedulously develop-
ing the power to enjoy for the sake
of enjoyment. The reader who does
not feel the immediate and obvious
beauty of a poem or a play has lost
the power, not only of getting the full
effect of a work of art, but of getting
its full significance as well. The sur-
prise, the delight, the joy of the first
discovery are not merely pleasurable;
they are in the highest degree educa-
tional. They reveal the sensitive-
ness of the nature to those ultimate
forms of beauty and power which art
takes on, and its power of respond-
ing not only to what is obviously
beautiful but is also profoundly true.
For the harmonious and noble beauty

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