The architecture of humanism; a study in the history of taste

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 43 aryeffortsof theJesuitshadmadeknown .^ Inthis caseour threenecessaryconditionswerefulfilled. For oneofth ...

44 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM tothemiddleofthe eighteenth centurythe mediaeval stylemerelyspeltdiscomfort, desolation, and gloo ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 45 manner ofBerkleySquareorArgyleBuildings. What in shortcan a lord donowadays that is lost in a great,old, ...

46 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM sectionofwaysinaWood orWildernesse,' werewell enough. Heretheymightbe admittedas curiosities — ^ ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 47 wasmadeinaspiritofamusedpedantryandconscious eccentricity,or,atmost,of archaeologicalpatronage ; norcoul ...

48 THE ARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM symbolically, asstanding forcertain ideas. And in particular the habit arose of regarding Greek a ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 49 tothe Renaissante traditionthisliteraryflavour, in adoptingthisunprecedentedlyimitativemanner,the vigour ...

50 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM tecturewasconcentrateduponthis alone. \ Beckford, at Fonthill, finding in the Georgian mansion he ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 51 romantic spiritinacruder,alessinteresting,anda less instructive manner than the Greek movement whichweha ...

52 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM gravest,istoregard architectureas symbolic, Litera- *tureispowerfultoinvest withfascination anype ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 53 the'expression'of'ignorantandmonkishbarbarians,' came to 'suggest' the idealised Goth — 'firm in his fai ...

54 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM association.»/Moreover,sinceliterary exercisesinvite effectsofcontrast,thearchitecture ofthe Ren ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 55 itsprecisecharacterbecomes farlessimportantthan itsgeneralso-called ' style ' ; justasin ahandwriting th ...

56 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM romanticism, ancient or modem, has, it is safeto say, been aperiodof marked antiquarianism. The ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 57 orantiquarian criticismitisrequiredtobe ' scholarly,' thatis, tocorrespond exactlytosome detail previ- o ...

58 THE ARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM neglect,andbymisinterpretation. Itwasinevitable that Romantic criticism should neglectthe Renais- ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 59 y^'Such were the consequences of the prepossession whichtranslates materialformsintotermsof'literary' id ...

60 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM combined. Literature is an art which deals pre- ponderatingly with ' expression.' Its appeal ism ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 6i thedirect elementsarevaluable, almostsolely,asa meanstothe indirect,andthatthemethodofthe art isstrictly ...

62 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM ative elementisnotfixedororganisable; itdoesnot containthetrueintentionortypicalvalueoftheart, a ...