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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... Literary erudition and evolutionary sci- ence were the chief weapons used to fight this modern heresy , but the one is an unwieldy and the other a useless weapon in the field of esthetic thought . On some sides , at least , the position ...
... Literary erudition and evolutionary sci- ence were the chief weapons used to fight this modern heresy , but the one is an unwieldy and the other a useless weapon in the field of esthetic thought . On some sides , at least , the position ...
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... literary history are disappearing from the new . In the first place , we have done with all the old Rules . The very conception of " rules " harks back to an age of magic , and reminds the modern of those mysterious words which the ...
... literary history are disappearing from the new . In the first place , we have done with all the old Rules . The very conception of " rules " harks back to an age of magic , and reminds the modern of those mysterious words which the ...
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... literary kinds . Their history is inseparably bound up with that of the classical rules . Certain works of literature have a general resemblance and are loosely classed together ( for the sake of convenience ) as lyric , comedy ...
... literary kinds . Their history is inseparably bound up with that of the classical rules . Certain works of literature have a general resemblance and are loosely classed together ( for the sake of convenience ) as lyric , comedy ...
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... literary kinds ; there are as many kinds as there are individual poets . But it is in the field of literary history that this error is most obvious . Shakespeare wrote King Lear , Venus and Adonis , and a sequence of sonnets . What ...
... literary kinds ; there are as many kinds as there are individual poets . But it is in the field of literary history that this error is most obvious . Shakespeare wrote King Lear , Venus and Adonis , and a sequence of sonnets . What ...
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... literary history becomes a logical absurdity when its data are not organically related but cut up into sections , and placed in such compartments as these . Only in one sense has any of these terms any profound significance , and that ...
... literary history becomes a logical absurdity when its data are not organically related but cut up into sections , and placed in such compartments as these . Only in one sense has any of these terms any profound significance , and that ...
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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.