Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... ( divine dispensation ) or magnetic irradiation of the poet himself . The Odes of Horace offer enough evidence that the poet's di- vine inspiration was still a current concept - if perhaps largely a tacit myth or poetical figure . But divine ...
... ( divine dispensation ) or magnetic irradiation of the poet himself . The Odes of Horace offer enough evidence that the poet's di- vine inspiration was still a current concept - if perhaps largely a tacit myth or poetical figure . But divine ...
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... divine gift . 6 The argument is marked by a certain etherealism , an appeal to what a modern literary critic might call the " angelic imagination . " The quest for beauty is rather an argument from divine postulates than an attempt to ...
... divine gift . 6 The argument is marked by a certain etherealism , an appeal to what a modern literary critic might call the " angelic imagination . " The quest for beauty is rather an argument from divine postulates than an attempt to ...
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... Divine Names of Dionysius - we have a discussion of " beauty " precisely as a “ Divine Name . " " Beauty " belongs to form and intelligence , and hence pre - eminently to the contemplative life.3 If we try to take Aquinas in the most ...
... Divine Names of Dionysius - we have a discussion of " beauty " precisely as a “ Divine Name . " " Beauty " belongs to form and intelligence , and hence pre - eminently to the contemplative life.3 If we try to take Aquinas in the most ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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