By Murray Krieger
Krieger on advancements and instructions in American poetics from the 30s as much as the printing of this text.
Includes feedback on TE Hulme, TS Eliot, IA Richards and different "New Critics" (Tate, Brooks, Ransom), the Chicago/neo-Aristotelian college of feedback, etc.
Long out of print. I obtained this one on my cabinets, yet this makes it so I by no means need to personal loan it out...
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The New Apologists for Poetry was once first released in 1956. Minnesota Archive variants makes use of electronic know-how to make long-unavailable books once more available, and are released unaltered from the unique collage of Minnesota Press editions.
The author's objective is to transparent the floor for a scientific aesthetics of poetry in line with the insights of our so much influential modern literary critics. The e-book is anxious with these of the so-called "new critics" who're attempting to solution the necessity, pressured on them by means of ancient and cultural pressures, to justify poetry by means of securing for it a different functionality for which sleek "scientism" can't discover a substitute.
This quantity offers extensive analyses of labor by way of critics of a number of persuasions: T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, John Crowe Ransom, Yvor Winters, Allen Tate, and Cleanth Brooks, and, for reasons of distinction, D. G. James, R. S. Crane, Elder Olson, and Max Eastman.
Allen Tate, the poet and critic, writes: "Mr. Krieger's booklet is the main looking out in scholarship and the main profound in serious research of the present books during this field."
Robert B. Heilman, critic and instructor, reviews: "The author's wisdom of a fancy box and his mastery of the analytical ideas which he's utilising to a selected set of severe positions are very remarkable. He not just clarifies the positions of assorted modern critics by means of studying them within the gentle of an identical set of normal rules, but additionally presents a few priceless, every now and then awesome, insights into the works of varied critics from the Greeks as much as the current. He lines the historical past of techniques and therefore establishes relationships between person critics and demanding schools."
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7 But if Coleridge’s practical application of his theory displays this tendency to equate the imaginative with the serious, there is nothing in his theoretical statement of the distinction between imagination and fancy which demands this kind of application. T h e self-conscious, humorless seriousness which characterizes the so-called romantic disposition is what bothers the modern critic most, since because of it the romantic becomes vulnerable to irony by not being able to supply his own. And the kind of poetry the romantic would try to justify with his theory would be of the unsmiling variety.
And what the poem adds to our attitudes toward life would very likely be impoverished rather than enriched if it spilled over into experience from the austere plenitude of art. If at her highest, art deters us with what Clive Bell has called her “cold, white peaks,” we must dare draw near to discover that, for those who abide with her the chill becomes a warmth that can sustain vigorous life—a warmth that never cloys. C 26 3 Introductory But this is to restate the paradox and to do it metaphorically— WJ ; I ml] be told’ wil1 never do- For this is to justify emotively what I have been unhappy with rationally; in effect, it is to convert paradox into miracle.
I do not mean to be wayward, perverse, or self-consciously obscure m my persistence about the paradoxical. It is simply the best I can do to account for the difficulties I meet as I try to theorize about my experiences with poetry. It may very well be as some will say, that all these difficulties I have dreamed up are really semantic confusions which would fade with a proper clarifi cation of the terms I use. Unequipped as a literary man must be or this rigorous sort of task, I welcome those who would furnish the kind of linguistic analysis which would rid me of these thorny problems by showing me they never existed.
