Obbligati: Essays in CriticismAtheneum, 1986 - 330 стор. "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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... mind , and draw truths from a scene , easily and effortlessly ( it would seem ) — though this kind of writing requires the hardest kind of disci- pline , it must be remembered . Not a graceful mind — that's a mistake — but a mind of ...
... mind , and draw truths from a scene , easily and effortlessly ( it would seem ) — though this kind of writing requires the hardest kind of disci- pline , it must be remembered . Not a graceful mind — that's a mistake — but a mind of ...
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... mind , and the soul . The body has its dignified and respectable place in the scale of being , for the body most ... mind , in any case , is not deceived . Meanwhile the Mind , from pleasure less , Withdraws into its happiness : The Mind ...
... mind , and the soul . The body has its dignified and respectable place in the scale of being , for the body most ... mind , in any case , is not deceived . Meanwhile the Mind , from pleasure less , Withdraws into its happiness : The Mind ...
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... mind . Regarded the other way around , the world and the mind are still no more than phantoms of their former " selves . " There is something both intoxicating and ghostly about this process , which I believe is very deliberate , and in ...
... mind . Regarded the other way around , the world and the mind are still no more than phantoms of their former " selves . " There is something both intoxicating and ghostly about this process , which I believe is very deliberate , and in ...
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