In Lyrical Poetry
Cultivation of language in general.
More manifold interest “in humanioribus,” in contrast to the crudeness of the ignorant, or the pedantic narrowness of the mere man of business or pedant.
Cultivation of the feelings and of the verbal expression of the same.
The cultivated man ought to be able to express his feelings with poetic beauty.
Idealization of concepts regarding objects of common life. Cultivation of the imagination, especially as an integral part of the culture of the intellect.
Awaking and direction of the productive imagination to the highest functions of the mind in the sciences and practical life.
Cultivation of the sense of the rhythmical.
There being no objective laws, either for the internal or external construction of a poem, the amateur ought to hold fast to acknowledged models much more strongly than the master does, and rather imitate the good that exists than strive after originality; and in the external and metrical parts, follow strictly the well-known general rules.
And as the Dilettante can only form himself after models, he ought, in order to avoid one-sidedness, to acquire the most universal knowledge of all models, and survey the field of poetic literature even more perfectly than is required of the artist himself.