Towards a Newer Laocoon
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"Towards a Newer Laocoon" (1940) is an essay by Clement Greenberg, first published in the Partisan Review. The title references the text "Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry" (1766) by Lessing and "The New Laokoön" (1910) by Irving Babbitt.
- "Purity in art consists in the acceptance, willing acceptance, of the limitations of the medium of the specific art"
- "Shelley expressed this best when in his A Defence of Poetry he exalted poetry above the other arts because its medium came closest, as Bosanquet puts it, to being no medium at all."
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