The New LaokoonHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 258 páginas |
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æsthetic already André Chénier Aristotelian Aristotle art and literature artist attempt Batteux Baudelaire beauty Blümner Boileau classic color-audition colors confusion course critics Diderot distinctions dreams E. T. A. Hoffmann element emotional epic Esseintes everything example expansion expression Father Castel feeling fiction formal French Friedrich Schlegel Greek half-truth human nature humanistic idea imaginative illusion imitation infinitely intellectual kind Laokoon law for thing Lessing literary Matthew Arnold merely modern movement neo-classic neo-classic rules neo-classicists nineteenth century Novalis novel object outer nature painter passage phrase Plato Platonist poem poet poetical diction poetry and painting point of view programme music prose pseudo-classic pure purpose rational reason Renaissance revery Richard Strauss romantic romanticism romanticists Rous Rousseau Rousseauistic Sainte-Beuve says Schlegel scientific sensation sense sentimental naturalist sion soul sound spirit spontaneous suggestiveness symbol theory tion true truth unity ut pictura poesis vital Wagner whole word-painting words Wordsworth writing
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Página 205 - No more — no more — no more" — (Such language holds the solemn sea To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar! And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
Página 102 - ... part, and contract a confederacy between the reason and imagination against the affections ; for the affections themselves carry ever an appetite to good, as reason doth. The difference is, that the affection beholdeth merely the present ; reason beholdeth the future and sum of time.
Página 24 - In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience of youth, But by the trade in classic niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase From languages that want the living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what is passion, what is truth. What reason, what simplicity and sense.
Página 112 - He has only felt during the whole course of his life," wrote Hume sympathetically; "and in this respect his sensibility rises to a pitch beyond what I have seen any example of ; but it still gives him a more acute feeling of pain than of pleasure. He is like a man who was...
Página 93 - ... beauty, are prized all the more at such a time because they are not choice, but drawn perhaps from a hideous and sordid environment. For this circumstance makes them a better means of escape from convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of fresh vitality the distinctions of tradition and reason a man may feel, as he sinks back comfortably to a lower level of sense and instinct, that...
Página 126 - The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture.
Página 95 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Página 127 - This is creation rather than painting; or, if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flashed at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. But the poet must likewise understand and command what Bacon calls the vestigia communia of the senses, the latency of all in each; and more especially, as by a magical penua duplex, the excitement of vision by sound and the exponents of sound. Thus, ' The echoing walks between,' may be almost said to reverse the fable...
Página 183 - VOYELLES A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu : voyelles, Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes...
Página 170 - ... Louis treize... Et je crois voir s'étendre Un coteau vert que le couchant jaunit. Puis un château de brique à coins de pierre, Aux vitraux teints de rougeâtres couleurs, Ceint de grands parcs, avec une rivière Baignant ses pieds, qui coule entre des fleurs. Puis une dame, à sa haute fenêtre, Blonde aux yeux noirs, en ses habits anciens... Que, dans une autre existence peut-être J'ai déjà vue! - et dont je me souviens!