Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sometimes hear that "art for art's sake is decadent--whatever that means." It ought not to mean anything. As a matter of fact it does mean that the disciple of the doctrine thinks himself freed from the truth that morality has any relation to art. A pure-souled idealist like Shelley could depart from traditional codes of morals and make for himself a new code that was yet noble. But Shelley escaped, in his poetry, from the vulgar details of life into an ideal world inhabited by ideal beings whose childlike vision was as pure as his. Even...