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This 1915 collection of literary essays reflects the author's conviction that such essays should ideally convey to readers the impact of an author or work of fiction upon the critic: no more and no less. The artists covered include Rabelais, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Nietzsche, Hardy, Poe, and Whitman, among other greats.… (altro)
If you are sicklied o'er with the pale cast of postmodernism, here is an antidote. Powys is passionate about the writers he discusses. Read him on Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Shelley, and Hardy and then read those writers again. You will find things there not dreamt of in your Theory. ( )
Great essays. In Powys' inimitable style. Essays on: Shakespeare, Rabelais, Dante, El Greco, Milton, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Shelley, Keats, Nietzsche, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, Dostoievsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and a conclusion. A fine little sample:
There are certain great writers who make their critics feel even as children, who picking up stray wreckage and broken shells from the edge of the sea waves, return home to show their companions "what the sea was like." ( )
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To those who love Without understanding; To those who understand Without loving; And to Those Who, neither loving or understanding, Are the Cause Why Books are written.
Incipit
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What I aim at in this book is little more than to give complete reflection to those great figures in Literature which have so long obsessed me.
Citazioni
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Every critic has a right to his own Aesthetic Principles, to his own Ethical Convictions; but when it comes to applying these, in tiresome, pedantic agitation, to Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Lamb, we must beg leave to cry off! What we want is not the formulating of new Critical Standards, and the dragging of the great masters before out last miserable Theory of Art. What we want is an honest, downright and quite personal articulation, as to how these great things in literature really hit us when they find us for the moment natural and off our guard-when they find us as men and women, and not as ethical gramaphones.
It is impossible to respond to a great genius halfway. It is a case of all or nothing. If you lack the courage, or the variability, to go all the way with very different masters, and to let your constructive consistency take care of itself, you may become, perhaps, an admirable moralist; you will never be a clairvoyant critic.
Ultime parole
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The truth seems to be that if the clue is to be caught at all, it will be caught where we least expect it; and, for the catching of it, what we have to do is not to let our theories, our principles, our convictions, our opinions, impede our vision—but now and then to lay them aside; but whether with them or without them, to be prepared—for the Spirit bloweth where it listeth and we cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth!
This 1915 collection of literary essays reflects the author's conviction that such essays should ideally convey to readers the impact of an author or work of fiction upon the critic: no more and no less. The artists covered include Rabelais, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Nietzsche, Hardy, Poe, and Whitman, among other greats.