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Truth in Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Maud Bodkin
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The nature of poetic truth, and of the belief claimed by poetry, has become for many thinkers a question of keener interest through the discussions of Dr. I. A. Richards. In a recent article in this Journal,1 Dr. Helen Wodehouse has expressed her own view, elicited in relation to that of Dr. Richards, concerning truth in poetry. She urges that “a great poem seems sometimes centrally to be showing us the full measure and nature of some aspect of the actual world.” Our response involves essentially an element of belief in something revealed as rooted in reality, laying necessity upon the poet; even though that belief may not attach to all that the poet accepted as fact, and though we may be unable to formulate in reflective terms the nature of the truth discerned.

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 10 , Issue 40 , October 1935 , pp. 467 - 472
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1935

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