Reading well is one of the great pleasures
The unity of a great era is generally an illusion.
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Row...
There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.
Frye’s influence on me lasted twenty years but came to an abrupt halt on my thirty-seventh birthday, July 11, 1967, when I awakened from a nightmare and then passed the entire day in composing a dithy...
Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.
The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only th...
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a...
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.
Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?
Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket
Every poet begins (however 'unconsciously') by rebelling more strongly against the fear of death than all other men and women do.
Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
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