Sleep Story 201 - George Bernard Shaw: His Plays
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The Poet and Lesste Social Philosopher
Even the writers of reviews in the literary monthlies and the press agents who provide discourses upon you can never tell, for the provincial dailies are thinkers. And so we may take it for granted that shaw tries to make us think, and that he succeeds. All that i have composed, said hendrick ibsen has not proceeded from a conscious tendency. I have been more the poet and lesste social philosopher than has been believed. Not alone those who write, but also those who read compose. And very often they are more full of poetry than the poet himself. The poet, said schopenhauer, brings pictures of life and human character and situations before the imagination
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