The Literary Essays of John Heath-StubbsCarcanet, 1998 - 214 страници To mark John Heath-Stubbs's eightieth birthday, Carcanet publishes his major essays. The earliest was written in 1945, the most recent half a century later. There is a notable continuity of concern throughout the book: here is a poet undistracted by fashion from his vocation, which is to read deeply and to understand the different terms on which every writer wrestles poems from a language. He considers English poets from Spenser to the present day, as well as the Italians Tasso and Leopardi. In engaging a writer he employs his unique understanding of poetic process. He has a clear sense of the challenges and rewards of sustained long poems - epic, allegory or satire - and an ear for rhythmic and semantic nuance. Fascination with specific detail never distracts him from a sense of the larger project of the poem itself. |
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... mind , but an organic , self - existent reality , from which the human mind itself drew its own power and life . We may best designate his fundamental atti- tude as Realism — using that term rather in its medieval , scholastic sense ...
... mind , but an organic , self - existent reality , from which the human mind itself drew its own power and life . We may best designate his fundamental atti- tude as Realism — using that term rather in its medieval , scholastic sense ...
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... mind . Thus the description of the wild scenery of Orkney in " Lamoracke and the Queen Morgause of Orkney ” —very powerful in its way - only to externalize the undisciplined passion of Morgause and her lover : Caves and hollows in the ...
... mind . Thus the description of the wild scenery of Orkney in " Lamoracke and the Queen Morgause of Orkney ” —very powerful in its way - only to externalize the undisciplined passion of Morgause and her lover : Caves and hollows in the ...
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... mind like Pascal's this experience may be a preliminary stage towards a mystical purgation . For a mind rendered incapable by temperament or upbringing of entering into such a state , it can only erect a backcloth of total despair ...
... mind like Pascal's this experience may be a preliminary stage towards a mystical purgation . For a mind rendered incapable by temperament or upbringing of entering into such a state , it can only erect a backcloth of total despair ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
A.T. Tolley Aeneid Anathemata Anne Killigrew Anne Ridler Armida Auden Augustan beauty C.S. Lewis characters Charles Williams Christian City civilisation classical contemporary Crabbe's criticism culture Dante Dante's Darkling Plain death Dryden early eclogue eighteenth century Elegy England English epic essay Ezra Pound fact figure Four Quartets Gebir Gray Gray's Hart Crane heroic historical Homer human ideal imagery imagination intellectual John Heath-Stubbs King Landor later Leopardi literary literature living Logres London Milton modern moral nature novel Oxford passage passion perhaps Pindaric play Poe's poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's Pound prose Queen reader religious Renaissance represented Romantic Romantic Love Romanticism satire seems sense Shelley Shephearde's Calender Sidney Keyes soul Spenser spirit stanza story suggest Swift symbol T.S. Eliot Taliessin Tasso Tennyson theme tradition tragedy universe verse Virgil W.B. Yeats Waste Land Williams's Wordsworth writing Yeats