Victorian Critical Theory - Geoffrey Tillotson (essay date 1951)
Geoffrey Tillotson (essay date 1951)
SOURCE: Tillotson, Geoffrey. “Newman's Essay on Poetry: An Exposition and Comment.” In Criticism and the Nineteenth Century, pp. 147-87. N.p.: Archon Books, 1967.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1951, Tillotson discusses Newman's influential 1829 essay, “Poetry with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics,” which is informed by John Henry Newman's Evangelical religious beliefs.]
The intellectual range and powers of Newman as a young don are nowhere concentrated more splendidly than in his essay on poetry.1 ‘Poetry with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics’ was furnished in response to a request of the strangely versatile Blanco White,2 who had been asked to edit a new magazine, and who looked to his friend Newman for a secular contribution to it: ‘Give me an article on any subject you like’, he pleaded, ‘Divinity excepted for the present, for of that I...
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