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Hello,

What book editions do you find aesthetically pleasing as object? So apart from the text itself, to be sure.

Harold Bloom - Where shall wisdom be found is a good example for me. Beautiful...

Hmm difficult question, because 5 is pretty young, but here's some brainstorming:

"Daffodils" ~ William Wordsworth (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790)

"Living Tenderly" ~ May Swenson...

Yes, that's it. In an article on sonnet 90, there's this: "Drop in" bitingly recalls the friendly informality of the former relationship. "Don't casually come to me with your hate-an 'after-loss' or...

Ethereal Lactacyd upon me shed, And wave thy silver soap o'er my ****.

Thanks a lot! Those should keep me occupied for a while. Great. :)

Victorian era maybe? And I don't know how to narrow it down; though I'm not looking for institution-critical/political poems, just something that is aesthetically strong.

Heey,
I'm looking for poems which are about subjecting yourself to something higher (Beauty or God), asceticism, protestant ethic, difficult pleasure instead of too wordly pleasures etc. - you get...

I understood that :), but a lot of writers I was referring to (Grunberg, Bordewijk) write like they are spectators at their own story, very descriptive 'matter of fact' without emotion.

Thank you. That's funny 'cause most books in the Dutch canon are quite the opposite...

Hey all,

Our friend Harold Bloom says that a book enters the canon "only by aesthetic strength, which is constituted primarily of an amalgam: mastery of figurative language, originality,...

I don't think you use the semicolon ; correctly. You can replace the first two with '-'s maybe. And you must get rid of the last one.

Kind regards,

Ruben

Hello guys,

I was wondering, does a) academic/critic opinion - Sons and Lovers is better than Lady Chatterley's Lover, Emma is better than Persuasion - a priori affect your cognitive/aesthetic...

Anthem by Ayn Rand.

http://www.berfrois.com/2011/03/excalibur-by-david-brent/

Because he jumps to a new line with Be, which I didn't do in my post

Thanks! That must be it.

For the rest, since I've opened a thread for this, why is this poem pretty high in the canon, at least being considered Wordsworth's highest achievement? Is it the...

Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?

Somewhere early in The Prelude there's: The earth is all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering...

In this book by Terry Eagleton about poetry (How to Read a Poem), there's this

In Lotman's view, a good literary work is one rich in information; and information is a matter of deviation. The more...

Bertrand Russell :) Being keen in logic and mathematics, he wrote in an unambigious style

Thanks, that makes sense:)

By the way, does anyone know an accomplished writer with an particular lucid, direct, simple prose style, beside Russell and Orwell?

Does anyone has tips on how to appreciate (good) writing style more? I hope that this could enhance my experience with great art, by being able to marvel at the brilliance of writing style an sich. ...

It's about a shift from traditional philological service and the study of historical context, to the ideological frame of reference of the reader. The text is seen as creating their own literary...

As yet, the cautious critic may well regard the one as a fantastic experiment of "mental philosophy," and the other as a mere fashion in logic and epistemology.

Susanne Langer - Philosophy in a...

Usually I get frustrated when I stumble upon a sentence I don't understand. I feel bad for reading further then, which usually doesn't help either: sometimes the context later on gives a clue