Literary Criticism; an Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... beginning student cannot be stirred by the poem , it is courting pedagogic defeat to ask him to read it . If he deals with it dutifully and takes what it says as authoritative doctrine - as why should he not , the text having been ...
... beginning student cannot be stirred by the poem , it is courting pedagogic defeat to ask him to read it . If he deals with it dutifully and takes what it says as authoritative doctrine - as why should he not , the text having been ...
Page 59
... beginning , a middle , and an end . A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity , but after which something naturally is or comes to be . An end , on the contrary , is that which itself naturally ...
... beginning , a middle , and an end . A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity , but after which something naturally is or comes to be . An end , on the contrary , is that which itself naturally ...
Page 452
... beginning ( that is , at my own beginning ) , which entails beginning again , going back over the whole road , just as though many others had not already mapped and traveled it . ... This is the road offered to us , or imposed on us ...
... beginning ( that is , at my own beginning ) , which entails beginning again , going back over the whole road , just as though many others had not already mapped and traveled it . ... This is the road offered to us , or imposed on us ...
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action admiration Aeschylus aesthetic appears Aristotle artist Balzac beauty become better Byron called century character Comedy conception consciousness culture D. H. Lawrence dramatic effect Eliot emotion English epic Epic poetry essay Euripides existence experience expression F. R. Leavis fact feeling fiction French genius give Greek Homer human I. A. Richards ideas Iliad images imagination imitation intellectual interpretation judgment kind King Lear language less literary criticism literature Matthew Arnold means metaphor mind modern moral myth nature never novel object Odysseus Paradise Lost passions perhaps person philosophical Plato play pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry present produced prose reader reality reason relation sense Shakespeare social Sophocles soul speak spirit story style T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion tragedy true truth University verse whole words Wordsworth writing