Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted, or tender, is not made by feeble blood. It may almost be said that before verse can be human again... The Bookman: A Literary Journal - Страница 651918Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1922 - 716 страница
...the world." to those who feel that "the strong things of life are needed" in art as well as in poetry "to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." progress in the arts as well as in philosophy and in politics is one of the finest and most exhilarating... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1922 - 724 страница
...the'world," to those who feel that "the strong things of life are needed" in art as well as in poetry "to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." progress in the arts as well as in philosophy and in politics is one of the finest and most exhilarating... | |
| John Middleton Murry - 1924 - 578 страница
...worms. Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what...verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. — /. M. Synge. THE CONTRIBUTORS' CLUB SHAKESPEARE AND IBSEN : THE LAST STAGE. — Shakespeare's prophetic... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 466 страница
...howling energy of a steel-mill in delicate pastels. One thinks of Synge and his prophetic preface: "It may almost be said that before verse can be human again, it must learn to be brutal ... it is the timber that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among... | |
| 1925 - 412 страница
...howling energy of a steel mill in delicate pastels. One thinks of Synge and his prophetic preface: "It may almost be said that before verse can be human again, it must learn to be brutal ... it is the timber that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among... | |
| Sir Harold Herbert Williams - 1925 - 554 страница
...It was his belief that most modern poetry had withdrawn itself from human and ordinary things, and that " before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal." To begin with a theory of life and poetry is not often a happy event ; but only one or two of Synge's... | |
| Austin Clarke - 1995 - 422 страница
...poems of country life; and later Synge, in his reaction against the Twilight, declared: It may also be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. He expresses his reaction in verse as follows: Adieu, sweet Angus, Maeve, and Fand, Ye plumed yet skinny... | |
| Robert Kirschten - 1997 - 294 страница
...left of their thinking. He echoes Synge's demand for a poetry fortified with the strong things of life "to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood. At the same time, he is conservative in religion, ambivalent about war, and skeptical of social progress.... | |
| Gregory A. Schirmer - 1998 - 460 страница
...successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is most exalted, or tender, is not made by feeble blood. It...before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.6 Yeats saw what Synge was up to; in his own preface to Poems and Translations, he said: " the... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страница
...Western World Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World. 11382 `m\7 SYRUS Publilius 1st Century BC 11383 Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. 11384... | |
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