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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... nature of criticism in American literature . The purpose of this volume is to bring together some of the more important essays representative of this discussion . The collection is not intended to be representative in any other way ...
... nature of criticism in American literature . The purpose of this volume is to bring together some of the more important essays representative of this discussion . The collection is not intended to be representative in any other way ...
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... natural sci- ence . They evolved the dramatic unities , and all those rules which the poet Pope imagined to be " Nature still but Nature methodized . " But at the very moment when their spokesman Scaliger was saying that " Aristotle is ...
... natural sci- ence . They evolved the dramatic unities , and all those rules which the poet Pope imagined to be " Nature still but Nature methodized . " But at the very moment when their spokesman Scaliger was saying that " Aristotle is ...
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... nature , indeed in the nature of Criticism itself . Listen to this : " It is not for the purpose of deciding on the merit of this noble poet [ Virgil ] , nor of harm- ing his reputation , that I have spoken so freely concerning him ...
... nature , indeed in the nature of Criticism itself . Listen to this : " It is not for the purpose of deciding on the merit of this noble poet [ Virgil ] , nor of harm- ing his reputation , that I have spoken so freely concerning him ...
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... nature by the traditions of Greek and Roman art . For these men literature was as much a prod- uct of reason as science or history . The eight- eenth century complicated the course of Crit- icism by the introduction of vague and novel ...
... nature by the traditions of Greek and Roman art . For these men literature was as much a prod- uct of reason as science or history . The eight- eenth century complicated the course of Crit- icism by the introduction of vague and novel ...
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... per- sonality which unfolds itself in the work of art , but the complex of external traits which the artist exhibits in his practical life . Still later , under the influence of natural science , Taine 19 The New Criticism.
... per- sonality which unfolds itself in the work of art , but the complex of external traits which the artist exhibits in his practical life . Still later , under the influence of natural science , Taine 19 The New Criticism.
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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.