 It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness , of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question : How to live.  Appletons' Journal - עמוד 821880תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Stephen K. George - 2005 - 428 דפים
...and Trilling was strongly influenced by Arnold, who said, "It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life;...application of ideas to life— to the question: How to live?"2 This notion of literature as a criticism of life is apparent in the preface to Trilling's famous... | |
 | David Manning - 2007 - 304 דפים
...example, in an essay on William Wordsworth, Arnold wtites: 'It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life;...ideas to life, — to the question: How to live.' See Essays in Criticism: Second Series (London: Macmillan, 1888), 143—4. To accomplish this end the... | |
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