Criticism in America, Its Functions and StatusIrving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, William Crary Brownell, Ernest Augustus Boyd, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Henry Louis Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Joel Elias Spingarn, George Edward Woodberry Harcourt, Brace, 1924 - 322 páginas |
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... impression- istic Criticism in that decade of controversy . It was a battle as old as the earliest reflection on the subject of poetry , if not as old as the sensitiveness of poets . Modern literature be- gins with the same doubts ...
... impression- istic Criticism in that decade of controversy . It was a battle as old as the earliest reflection on the subject of poetry , if not as old as the sensitiveness of poets . Modern literature be- gins with the same doubts ...
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... impressions of life . But for all these critics and theorists , literature is an ex- pression of something , of ... impression- istic critics of our day may set for themselves very different tasks , but the idea of expression is ...
... impressions of life . But for all these critics and theorists , literature is an ex- pression of something , of ... impression- istic critics of our day may set for themselves very different tasks , but the idea of expression is ...
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... impression does it leave on the receptive mind , and how can I best express this im- pression ? Is his work true to the laws of its own being rather than to laws formulated by others ? These are the questions that modern critics have 24 ...
... impression does it leave on the receptive mind , and how can I best express this im- pression ? Is his work true to the laws of its own being rather than to laws formulated by others ? These are the questions that modern critics have 24 ...
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... in French journalism . One's impression at first is that they take the business much less seriously than one would expect in a country with such an active interest in art and letters . The papers , even the 90 W. C. Brownell.
... in French journalism . One's impression at first is that they take the business much less seriously than one would expect in a country with such an active interest in art and letters . The papers , even the 90 W. C. Brownell.
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... impression , for all the documents which have come down to us , that our grandfathers really did pass through the war without under- going the purgation of soul that is often said to justify the workings of tragic mischance in human ...
... impression , for all the documents which have come down to us , that our grandfathers really did pass through the war without under- going the purgation of soul that is often said to justify the workings of tragic mischance in human ...
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Página 214 - The necessity that he shall conform, that he shall cohere, is not one-sided; what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.
Página 180 - First, we must have made plain to ourselves what the poet's aim really and truly was, how the task he had to do stood before his own eye, and how far, with such means as it afforded him, he has fulfilled it.
Página 220 - It may partly or exclusively operate upon the experience of the man himself; but the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will die mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material.
Página 117 - Thus it tends, at last, to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces ; to make the best ideas prevail.
Página 217 - Europe — the mind of his own country — a mind which he learns in time to be much more important than his own private mind — is a mind which changes, and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route, which does not superannuate either Shakespeare, or Homer, or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draughtsmen. That this development, refinement perhaps, complication certainly, is not, from the point of view of the artist, any improvement. Perhaps not even an improvement from...
Página 325 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching...
Página 213 - Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously...
Página 214 - ... the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
Página 154 - In the fairyland of fancy, genius may wander wild ; there it has a creative power, and may reign arbitrarily over its own empire of chimeras.
Página 227 - This essay proposes to halt at the frontier of metaphysics or mysticism, and confine itself to such practical conclusions as can be applied by the responsible person interested in poetry. To divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conduce to a juster estimation of actual poetry, good and bad.