THIS book is not a philological work. Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature. I am interested in poetry. I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the mediaeval literature of... The Spirit of Romance - Pagina xidoor Ezra Pound - 2005 - 248 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
| Harold Monro - 1920 - 250 pagina’s
...European literature. " I am interested in poetry," he writes in his Prafatio ad Lector em Electum. " I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements...mediaeval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, as I believe, still potent in our own." The intellectual perversity of Ezra Pound has disgusted many... | |
| Harry Levin - 1980 - 284 pagina’s
...begins, in a high-sounding Praefatio ad lectorem electum which intermingles diffidence with arrogance. "Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature." And on the next page, more specifically, he announces: "What we need is a literary scholarship which... | |
| María Rosa Menocal - 1994 - 318 pagina’s
...I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the medieval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, I believe, still potent in our own. . . . I have floundered somewhat ineffectually through the slough of philology, but I look forward... | |
| Eric Homberger - 1972 - 530 pagina’s
...in European literature. 'I am interested in poetry,' he writes in his Prxfatio adLectorem Electum. 'I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements...mediaeval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, as I believe, still potent in our own.' The intellectual perversity of Ezra Pound has disgusted many... | |
| Robert Crawford - 2001 - 310 pagina’s
...Literature of Latin Europe. Its 'Praefatio ad Lectorem Electum' announces of The Spirit of Romance that 'Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature', yet those words 'study' and 'comparative literature' carry the freight of US academia. Pound has his... | |
| Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference - 2007 - 236 pagina’s
...Pound identifies his motivation for bringing together various texts from various vernacular traditions: I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the medieval literature of the Latin tongues, and are I believe, still potent in our own. (1968: 9) By... | |
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