GEORGE ELIOT’S IDEAL ART.

This article examines George Eliot's poetry and its relationship to her prose. While some critics argue that her poetry lacks the transcendent quality of true poetry, the article suggests that Eliot's poetry is informed by idealist aesthetics and aims to transcend the boundaries of prose writing. It explores Eliot's knowledge of various theories of art and her idealist conception of the genesis of art in her biblical poem "The Legend of Jubal." The article also suggests that Eliot's understanding of poetry is influenced by German Idealist philosophers like Hegel. Overall, Eliot's poetry seeks to unite feeling and thought, form and content, in order to embody higher truth and achieve a deeper understanding of reality. [Extracted from the article]