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CHAPTER I

MATHEW ARNOLD’S PREGNANT POETRY

[T]he Kantian “without interest” must be shadowed by the wildest interest, and there is much to be said for the idea that the dignity of artworks depends on the intensity of the interest from which they are wrested. . . .Art does not come to rest in disinterestedness. For disinterestedness immanently reproduces—and transforms interest . . . For the sake of happiness, happiness is renounced. It is thus that desire survives in art.

Theodor Adorno ^xxviii

Wandering between two worlds, one dead,

The other powerless to be born.

Matthew Arnold