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रस-मीमांसा the subject the more carefully must the mere tricks of the trade be avoided, is not a law invented by man, but is founded on the laws of nature." Poetic Imagination, The poet looks through a different atmosphere which transfigures and ennobles human life. "The light that never was on sea or land" is before the poet's eyes. There is one poet, however, who gazed at the world through no atmosphere of the golden clime. Realism- Shelley and Keats have very little touch of realism. We do not find in them that loving eye for the physiognomy of life-whether it be the life of nature or the life of man which we find in even the smallest poets. Their command over the mere poetic vehicle is so prodigious and involves such an entire devotion to the study of poetry as a fine art, that but little force is left for the study of nature and man-that study which alone can result in the poetic realism of the great masters who combine all the powers of the two varieties of poets. Realism is not only a legitimate, it is an essential quest of the poet until he has passed
