The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William HazlittFordham University Press, 1981 - 125 Seiten Hazlitt is easily the most representative of the major British critics writing during the period of 'High Romanticism' (1790-1830), as well as one of the two greatest.No other critic is so central and in so many ways.The Logic of Passion is a book that distils over twenty years of thinking not only about Hazlitt but also about three more general subjects without which a first-class book on Hazlitt as a critic could hardly be written. (1) The English romantics generally; (2) what is rarer, in our academic specialization, a grasp of the eighteenth-century intellectual (and critical) legacy; (3) what is still rarer, a knowledge of the history of criticism as a whole.Professor Mahoney's credentials are impeccable. He has taught and written in all of these fields - English romanticism, the eighteenth century, and the history of criticism. His book is therefore rich in what is usually called 'background.' Yet his learning is carried lightly, as befits a mature scholar who is distilling a complex subject without confronting us with the fatigues of self-display and nit-picking. With the sureness of authority, he moves quickly and cleanly to the essentials. His method is rightly thematic rather than chronological.Professor Mahoney is able, without tedious length, to give a truly comprehensive interpretation.Professor Mahoney's Logic of Passion is one of those rare books one can warmly recommend both to the beginning and the advanced scholar. For its clarity of style and structure, its pace and verve make it as readable as any discussion of any major critic I have encountered. Yet.the subject is so richly nuanced that the mature scholar of both romanticism and the history of criticism will time and again see the implications with a union of freshness and penetration, 'herrlich, ' as Goethe said, 'wie am ersten Tage. |
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The Critical Setting | 7 |
Intellectual Forebears | 27 |
A New Image of the Critic | 37 |
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The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt John L. Mahoney Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1981 |
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abstraction Aesthetics of William Anglo-Scottish argued artist association basic beauty century characters Chaucer conception concern concrete contemporary contends creative Critical Theory described dramatic Dryden effect egotism eighteenth eighteenth-century emotional English English Studies Essay essential excitement experience expression faculty feeling genius gusto H. W. Garrod Harvard University Hazlitt's critical heart Hobbes human mind ideal ideas imagination imitation impression individual intellectual interest John Keats Johnson judgment kind King Lear lack Lear literature Macbeth Metaphysical poets Milton moral Neoclassic Neoclassicism object in nature Othello passion philosophy pleasure PMLA poems poet poetry Pope Pope's practical criticism preoccupation principle Professor reality reason response reveals Reynolds Romantic rooted seems sensation sense Shakespeare Spenser spirit strong student of Hazlitt sympathy taste things thought tion tradition tragedy true truth University Press variety VIII vital Walter Jackson Bate William Carew Hazlitt William Hazlitt Wordsworth writing XVIII
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