Obbligati: Essays in CriticismAtheneum, 1986 - 330 頁 "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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... temple in building , and wilt thou rear it up in three days ? But he spake of the temple of his body . When therefore he was risen from the dead , his dis- ciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the ...
... temple in building , and wilt thou rear it up in three days ? But he spake of the temple of his body . When therefore he was risen from the dead , his dis- ciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the ...
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... temples . Let me quote briefly from his text . " The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the princi- ples of which must be most carefully observed by the architect . They are due to proportion , a correspondence among the mea ...
... temples . Let me quote briefly from his text . " The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the princi- ples of which must be most carefully observed by the architect . They are due to proportion , a correspondence among the mea ...
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... temple , the second likening a temple to the body , should articulate themselves at the birth of the Roman Imperium . And to these texts I should like to add a third . It is what we may think of as perhaps a Christianized version of ...
... temple , the second likening a temple to the body , should articulate themselves at the birth of the Roman Imperium . And to these texts I should like to add a third . It is what we may think of as perhaps a Christianized version of ...
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