Abstract

A Man of Feeling

The article focuses on the book "The Innocent Eye," by Herbert Read. The author, Read has written poetry and critical prose. Following the advice of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he tells readers, he took regular employment in order to be a writer in his leisure hours. He is that phenomenon, more familiar in England than in this country, of the state functionary and man of letters in one. For many years he was an official in the British Treasury and for many years a curator of ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum. But he remained always, it is clear, primarily a man of letters, with a voracious interest in all the world's literature in all its genres. He remained throughout the littérateur who, partly as a result of his work in the museum, came to be a writer and to be known most widely as an effective critic of art and the arts.