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 pages |
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... Symons , there has been much talk of the " cre- ative function " of Criticism . For each of these men the phrase held a different content ; for Arnold it meant merely that Criticism creates the intellectual atmosphere of the age , -a ...
... Symons , there has been much talk of the " cre- ative function " of Criticism . For each of these men the phrase held a different content ; for Arnold it meant merely that Criticism creates the intellectual atmosphere of the age , -a ...
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... Symons ( for the quotation was , of course , not from Mr. Symons ) notably suffers . Mr. Symons repre- sents the other tendency ; he is a representative of what is always called " esthetic criticism " or " impressionistic criticism ...
... Symons ( for the quotation was , of course , not from Mr. Symons ) notably suffers . Mr. Symons repre- sents the other tendency ; he is a representative of what is always called " esthetic criticism " or " impressionistic criticism ...
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... Symons ; but it is the " impressionistic " critic , and the impressionistic critic is supposed to be Mr. Symons . 1 At hand is a volume which we may test . ' Ten of these thirteen essays deal with single plays of Shakespeare , and it is ...
... Symons ; but it is the " impressionistic " critic , and the impressionistic critic is supposed to be Mr. Symons . 1 At hand is a volume which we may test . ' Ten of these thirteen essays deal with single plays of Shakespeare , and it is ...
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... Symons is living through the play as one might live it through in the theater ; recount- ing , commenting : In her last days Cleopatra touches a certain eleva- tion ... she would die a thousand times , rather than live to be a mockery ...
... Symons is living through the play as one might live it through in the theater ; recount- ing , commenting : In her last days Cleopatra touches a certain eleva- tion ... she would die a thousand times , rather than live to be a mockery ...
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... Symons ' book , we may find that our own impressions dissent from his . The book has not , perhaps , a permanent value for the one reader , but it has led to results of permanent importance for him . The question is not whether Mr. Symons ...
... Symons ' book , we may find that our own impressions dissent from his . The book has not , perhaps , a permanent value for the one reader , but it has led to results of permanent importance for him . The question is not whether Mr. Symons ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.