The Literary Leaf 🌿

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LANGUOR

"Language is a system of signs whose parts must be considered in their synchronic solidarity." – Ferdinand de Saussure

Major Works of the Victorian Poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden, Idylls of the King, Queen Mary, Harold, Bracket, Akbar's Tomb, Crossing the Bar, Locksley Hall, Dora, Poems Chiefly Lyrical, Ulysses, The Lotos-Eaters, The Death of Oenone and Other Poems

"Poetry is not a branch of authorship ; it is the stuff of which one life is made. The rest is mere oblivion. For all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it." – William Hazlitt On Poetry in General (1818)

Art for Art's sake (L’art pour L’Art) is a literary and aesthetic philosophy that suggests art doesn't need to teach a moral lesson, spread a message or serve society. Art simply exists for beauty, creativity and self-expression. The movement began in 19th-century France, with Théophile Gautier as one of its major advocates, and later became popular in Britain through the Aesthetic movement and writers like Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater.