Sincerity’s Shadow: Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American PoetryHarvard University Press, 17.02.2004 - 244 Seiten In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. |
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... become a " habit " that he can no longer either examine or describe it , but in which what he fears has not yet come to pass . We are left to wonder whether this moment is actually inhabitable , or whether " abstruse re- search " has ...
... become apparent . 6 He assures us that " the measure of a poet's sincerity is , it must be , inside his poem , " but at the cost of redefining " sincerity " to the ex- tent that it becomes unrecognizable : We were right all along to ...
... circularity of this argument , in which the thing that is " in the highest degree self - evident " becomes the thing most in need of defense or expla- nation , is one version of the persistent philosophical paradox 6 SINCERITY'S SHADOW.
... becomes more exaggerated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . To sketch a complicated history quickly : Hegel takes Kant to task for failing to extend his theory of transcendental apper- ception more ambitiously and argues that ...
... becomes difficult to distinguish mastery from being mastered by the muse . In other words , in a variety of ways , like self - consciousness itself poetry holds the simul- taneous promise of perfect self - discovery and threat of ...
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