Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.7
Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.7
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the poetic imagination must show itself; and the ultimate test of poetry is the appreciation of the sahr̥daya, the man of taste, whose technical knowledge must be equal to his finer capacity of aesthetic enjoyment, born out of wide culture and identification with the feelings and sentiments of the poet. As this capacity, which is likened to the bliss of divine contemplation, is vouchsafed to the fit and few, the critic as well as the poet is born, and not made.