Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations of the parts of the musical scores referred to in the text. See 12903-h.htm or 12903-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/9/0/12903/12903-h/12903-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/9/0/12903/12903-h.zip) Criticism of contemporary art is really a kind of prophecy. For the appreciation of the classical past is an act of present perception, not a mere memory of popular verdicts. The classics live only because they still express the vital feeling of to-day. The new art must do more,--must speak for the morrow. And as the poet is a kind of seer, the t…
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