Criticism in America: Its Function and Status; EssaysHarcourt, Brace, 1924 - 330 páginas |
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... speaking world fr four several years official introductio But I for one nee work ; under his ba ago , and here re - e : say . He has led from the concept 1 conclusion that al does not permit , no follow this argum cons . If this theo ...
... speaking world fr four several years official introductio But I for one nee work ; under his ba ago , and here re - e : say . He has led from the concept 1 conclusion that al does not permit , no follow this argum cons . If this theo ...
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... speak of the comic in the same gen- eral way in which we might speak of the ex- pression of joy in a poem . If , on the other hand , these terms represent abstract classifica- tions of poetry , their use in criticism sins against the ...
... speak of the comic in the same gen- eral way in which we might speak of the ex- pression of joy in a poem . If , on the other hand , these terms represent abstract classifica- tions of poetry , their use in criticism sins against the ...
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... speak of the immorality of a musical chord or a Gothic arch . It is only conceivable in a world in which dinner - table conversation runs after this fashion : " This cauliflower would be good if it had only been prepared in accordance ...
... speak of the immorality of a musical chord or a Gothic arch . It is only conceivable in a world in which dinner - table conversation runs after this fashion : " This cauliflower would be good if it had only been prepared in accordance ...
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... speak loosely of the handling of such a theme as Prometheus by Eschylus and by Shelley , of the story of Francesca ... speaking , they are not employing the same theme at all . Each artist is expressing a certain material and labeling it ...
... speak loosely of the handling of such a theme as Prometheus by Eschylus and by Shelley , of the story of Francesca ... speaking , they are not employing the same theme at all . Each artist is expressing a certain material and labeling it ...
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... speaking , it seems a private affair that he is engaged in , an appreciation within his own consciousness ; for the public to benefit by this method , every one must become his own critic , since to create or re - create is a deeply ...
... speaking , it seems a private affair that he is engaged in , an appreciation within his own consciousness ; for the public to benefit by this method , every one must become his own critic , since to create or re - create is a deeply ...
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Página 216 - ... 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 216 - This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional. And it is at the same time what makes a writer most acutely conscious of his place in time, of his own contemporaneity.
Página 261 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 324 - I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth.
Página 182 - 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 259 - ... to clothe home scenes and places and familiar names with those imaginative and •whimsical associations so seldom met with in our new country, but which live like charms and spells about the cities of the old world, binding the heart of the native inhabitant to his home.
Página 227 - The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. And emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him. Consequently, we must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity
Página 216 - No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
Página 119 - 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 - The existing order is complete before the new work arrives ; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered ; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted ; and this is conformity between the old and the new. Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past \ | should be altered by the present as...