Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these... Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Changeby Cheri Colby Langdell - 2004 - 277 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| Jonathan Holden - 1999 - 172 pages
...personality; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Mary Kinzie, like all of the best postmodern poets, does not use disguises; but she is a formalist... | |
| Ronald Schuchard - 1999 - 293 pages
...point of escape from the "acute discomfort" of personality into the impersonality of art. As he says, "only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things" (SE 10- n).The critic aims not only to record the unique complex of personal and artistic voices... | |
| Jonathan Holden - 1999 - 180 pages
...personality; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Mary Kinzie, like all of the best postmodern poets, does not use disguises; but she is a formalist... | |
| John Lucas - 1999 - 276 pages
...personality, but an escape from personality." Eliot did not help his own argument by adding "But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to escape from these things,"16 because quite apart from appearing intolerably snobbish - ordinary people,... | |
| Peter Brown - 2000 - 572 pages
...to me by the Prince of Shepherds. . . . Understand my fear ... for I fear deeply.'4 'But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.'5 Augustine was the son of a violent father, and of a relentless mother. He could uphold what... | |
| Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 318 pages
...what is already living. (SE, 22. Last italics mine) 636 635 We may assume that Eliot's acid remark that "only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things" is aimed at Hardy and his like, since the self that Hardy "had to express" does not strike... | |
| Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 318 pages
...of what is already living. (SE, 22. Last italics mine)636 635 We may assume that Eliot's acid remark that "only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things" is aimed at Hardy and his like, since the self that Hardy "had to express" does not strike... | |
| Martin Travers - 2001 - 372 pages
...from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. 18 'From the beginning of consciousness to the end' Virginia Woolf: 'Modern fiction' (1919)... | |
| Neil Roberts - 2003 - 652 pages
...from emotion: it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. (Eliot, 1932, p. 21) In his own early poetry, there is an absence of any voice which might... | |
| David Bromwich - 2001 - 275 pages
...from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." Here the argument becomes more interesting. It sounds as if the "continual extinction" had... | |
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