Herbert Read vs. L. P. Jacks
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Herbert Read
1893 – 1968
Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism.
"The words in a poem, are vocal signs that convey an intangible essence that vanishes the moment we approach it with an analytical intelligence."
L. P. Jacks
1860 – 1955
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, abbreviated L. P. Jacks, was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister who rose to prominence in the period from World War I to World War II.
"Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object."
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