Without the critical faculty, there is no artistic creation at all Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’ Christine Evans’ multi-faceted exploration of poetry, composition and the creative impulse, Burning the Candle (Gomer 2006), includes a poem called ‘The Fetch’. Here thought becomes a sheepdog ‘fetching’ ideas and metaphors as it runs: each steers their charges […]
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