When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These studies have informed his reading of English, Irish, and American literature. Now in this volume, one of our most distinguished readers of modern literature offers his most personal book of literary criticism. Donoghue's Words Alone is an intellectual memoir, a lucid and illuminating account of his engagement with the works of T. S. Eliot-from initial undergraduate encounters with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to later submission to Eliot's entire writings. "The pleasure of Eliot's words persists," Donoghue says, "only because in good faith it can't be denied." Submission to Eliot, in Donoghue's case, involves the ear as much as it does the mind. He is a reader who listens attentively and a writer whose own music in these pages commands attention. Whether he is writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the (often contentious) prose, Donoghue eloquently demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of language.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: T.S.Eliot DenisDonoghue 詩歌 美國 現代 文學評論
"words alone are at best uncertain good, but they are the only instruments that we have" (Preface, xiii). The chapters noted briefly as the following: sounding sense, the voices and the limit of language, beauty, egotism, de-prejudice, _______, confessing, recognition, reason and belief, de-politicize, process, faith as a doctrine felt, communion.
評分沒什麼論點,就是娓娓道來式地整個細讀一遍,很適閤閑讀。裏麵有一些非常個人的私貨和評價,可以不同意但還是不住要贊嘆精微的感受力。
評分讀瞭“Reading Four Quartets”,以及之前還讀過Prufrock那篇。一開始我以為Four Quartets裏邊,為時間塑形的正是意識,迴憶,想象,這些充滿瞭個人的色彩的東西,但是讀瞭作者的解讀以後,發現在Eliot的世界觀裏邊,它們是不完整不完善的self-engrossing fancy,是需要為瞭理解存在於外部世界的“現實”和“意義”而減少或者摒棄的東西。哎所以還是打消寫Eliot的念頭惹,不懂他……
評分讀瞭“Reading Four Quartets”,以及之前還讀過Prufrock那篇。一開始我以為Four Quartets裏邊,為時間塑形的正是意識,迴憶,想象,這些充滿瞭個人的色彩的東西,但是讀瞭作者的解讀以後,發現在Eliot的世界觀裏邊,它們是不完整不完善的self-engrossing fancy,是需要為瞭理解存在於外部世界的“現實”和“意義”而減少或者摒棄的東西。哎所以還是打消寫Eliot的念頭惹,不懂他……
評分沒什麼論點,就是娓娓道來式地整個細讀一遍,很適閤閑讀。裏麵有一些非常個人的私貨和評價,可以不同意但還是不住要贊嘆精微的感受力。
Words Alone 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載