 | Catherine Perry - 2003 - 464 стор.
...natural world cannot be ultimately mastered or transcended. THE DEAD AND THE LIVING MUSE [T]he death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. Lamartine's Angel —Edgar Allan Poe In a letter of October 1903, written in the first year of his... | |
 | Dorothea E. von Mücke - 2003 - 308 стор.
...that exemplifies Poe's famous dictum from "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) that "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world,"18 be it in terms of a psychoanalytical dimension (Bronfen) or resonance with sentimental mass... | |
 | Caroline Evans, Caroline Edwards - 2003 - 348 стор.
...form of master)' over this fear, in the late nineteenth century, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."1" The morbid association of women with death was made in nineteenth-century an and literature,... | |
 | Roger A. Salerno - 2003 - 284 стор.
...work of French poets, but in Wordsworth, Goethe, and of course Poe when Johnson quotes: "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."66 Although Johnson sees this remark of Poe as misogynistic, it is important to understand how... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2009 - 580 стор.
...explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious — "When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is,...unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world — and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved... | |
 | Heinz Tschachler, Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer - 2003 - 236 стор.
...woman. In his essay "The Philosophy of Composition" the poet wrote: '"When it most allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.'"... | |
 | Donald Hall - 2004 - 236 стор.
...are death and young women. Ah! — it comes to Poe in a flash, Archimedes in the bathtub. Eureka! — "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. . . ." Now it is moderately clear that Poe needed to write about dead women. Far from being the last... | |
 | Eliza Richards - 2004 - 264 стор.
...melancholy regret from the lyric speaker to a universal reader who would agree that "the death ... of a beautiful woman is unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world - and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved... | |
 | Elizabeth Klaver - 2004 - 268 стор.
...Pearson for their insights during the writing of this paper. 1 . Poe famously asserted, "the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." ( The Philosophy of Composition, 1846). Contemporary cinema's fascination with the details of forensics,... | |
 | Anna Richards - 2004 - 248 стор.
...and/or metaphorical terms. The novelist, in accordance with Poe's famous statement that 'the death of a beautiful woman is. unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world',8 portrays the decline of his heroine as a beautiful spectacle, and the 'mysterious' femininity... | |
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When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world... 
