Obbligati: Essays in CriticismAtheneum, 1986 - 330 Seiten "The proper role of criticism [is] as a musical obbligato; that is, a counterpart that must constantly strive to move in strict harmony with and intellectual counterpoint to its subject, and remain always subordinate to the text upon which it presumes to comment." With this declaration, Hecht sets forth the manifesto of this graceful group of essays, implicitly chiding today's academic critics who apply theories to texts. Hecht is particularly elegant and eloquent on contemporary American poetry, from the tension between truth and fiction in Robert Lowell's autobiographical lyrics to the "musicianship" of Richard Wilbur. Hecht's best essay evokes the unique poetic voice of Elizabeth Bishop, and he is equally perspicacious on Frost, Auden, and Dickinson. An extended essay on Marvell's "The Garden" and Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" offers an unusual comparative reading that captures the energies and langours of both poems. This book offers literary essays of rare quality. The writing throughout is a model of form suiting function--the lucid exposition of well-chosen ideas. |
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... Beauty and absolute Love , which is to say , Paradise . The slighting remarks about women's beauty are not to be taken , I feel certain , as stern - minded Puritan asceticism , or even as stern - minded Platonism . The human faculties ...
... Beauty and absolute Love , which is to say , Paradise . The slighting remarks about women's beauty are not to be taken , I feel certain , as stern - minded Puritan asceticism , or even as stern - minded Platonism . The human faculties ...
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... beauty is precisely mortal , and these women have im- mortalized themselves in myths by becoming sacred emblems of ... beauty , and the purifying of that beauty by metamorphosis , leads directly to the altered state of the poet . The ...
... beauty is precisely mortal , and these women have im- mortalized themselves in myths by becoming sacred emblems of ... beauty , and the purifying of that beauty by metamorphosis , leads directly to the altered state of the poet . The ...
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... Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes , Or new Love pine at them beyond to - morrow . IV Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee , Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards , But on the viewless wings of Poesy , Though the dull brain perplexes ...
... Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes , Or new Love pine at them beyond to - morrow . IV Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee , Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards , But on the viewless wings of Poesy , Though the dull brain perplexes ...
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The Pathetic Fallacy | 3 |
On W H Audens In Praise of Limestone | 27 |
Othello | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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