Showing posts with label sublime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sublime. Show all posts
11.15.2009
Berryman, Blackmur & the "American sublime"
The website digital emunction has posted a mini-essay of mine, on "the American sublime".
11.29.2005
Still reading G. Mazzotta on Giambattista Vico.
Someone could write something interesting on Chas. Olson & Vico, if they haven't already. Olson would have found him agreeable.
Vico disputed both Plato & Aristotle on the nature of poetry. For V., poetry is essentially history. Memory's recollections, imaginations & inventions are inseparable from the drives & passions of peoples, and writing (poetry) records (or adumbrates) the distance or dissociation which is memory itself.
Vico against poetry as "craft", or as something having to do with philosophy or the critical intelligence. He sounds berry much like a Longinian-sublime Romantic.
cf. Mazzotta p. 150 or so.
Someone could write something interesting on Chas. Olson & Vico, if they haven't already. Olson would have found him agreeable.
Vico disputed both Plato & Aristotle on the nature of poetry. For V., poetry is essentially history. Memory's recollections, imaginations & inventions are inseparable from the drives & passions of peoples, and writing (poetry) records (or adumbrates) the distance or dissociation which is memory itself.
Vico against poetry as "craft", or as something having to do with philosophy or the critical intelligence. He sounds berry much like a Longinian-sublime Romantic.
cf. Mazzotta p. 150 or so.
5.19.2005
To say the beautiful is strict, absolute, universal, objective, rooted in nature... is only half of the equation. The beautiful is also surprising, original, unaccountable, challenging, recalcitrant, sometimes awful, terrible, tremendous.
The beautiful is a balance between creative power & the inherent proportions of nature. A proportion of proportions.
Even the poems that reject or deny harmony can't escape its presence, lurking in the background.
It's easy to define the beautiful. Much harder to find & defend it. That's the critic's job : to apprehend beauty where it wasn't noticed before.
The beautiful is a balance between creative power & the inherent proportions of nature. A proportion of proportions.
Even the poems that reject or deny harmony can't escape its presence, lurking in the background.
It's easy to define the beautiful. Much harder to find & defend it. That's the critic's job : to apprehend beauty where it wasn't noticed before.
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