On the Nature of Beautiful Art

Adherence to the truth, as it may be gleaned by fallible human beings, and stylized perceptions as they may be perceived, by vulnerable and sensitive beings, and loveliness as it may be fashioned and presented, by mortal creatures with a tendency to err-these are the essences of Beauty in Art . . . . ON THE NATURE OF BEAUTIFUL ART: LITERATURE FOR LIFE A paean to Romanticism, Poeticism and Aestheticism, in a Manifesto on the Nature of Art, its place in the world, and on the cultivation of a viable Life of Letters in a Culture of Beauty.