POETRY Poetry, fiction, and drama use a common material, language, and therefore a study of the nature of any one of the three is also an examination of the nature of the other two. We can have a poem in dramatic form, a drama in poetic form, and a novel which is either dramatic or poetic. They differ not in substance but in garb. Since words are the material of these arts the study of the nature of a verbal art work reduces itself to an inquiry as to the nature of language and what the poet, whom we shall use as the typical verbal artist, does to it in transmuting this material into art. The Nature of Language The Nature of Poetry Poetry As Verbal Music Poetry As Poetic Idea The Poetic Idea G. Courbet		Home The Nature and Objective of Aesthetics Art and the Artist The Art Work The Art Work in the Making The Creative Mind  Art and the Artist Art and the Layman The Experience of Beauty Beauty in Music Painting Poetry