Enemies of Poetry - W.B. Stanford
KORTE INHOUD
'All I assert', writes W.B. Stanford, 'is the uniqueness and autonomy of poetry'. The enemies of poetry, he argues, are the scholars and critics who treat poetry as as if it were essentially an incompetent, bizarre and 'unrieliable' way of presenting information on history, science, education, ethics or politics. Extreme examples of this misguided and misleading kind of criticism are quoted and discussed in chapters on historicists, scientists, psychologists, mathematicians, philosophers, politicians and moralists. These varieties of misguided criticism are collected together in Chapter 6, 'Twenty-six Fallacies of Classical Criticism'.
Professor Stanford argues that the classical tradition is strongest when based on the four separate foundations of poetry, oratory, history and philosophy. When this balance is upset, the imaginative, poetic element in literature inevitably becomes disparagaed and neglected by the inductive criticism of scholastic intolerance.
On the basis of testimonies by ancient and modern poe...
Professor Stanford argues that the classical tradition is strongest when based on the four separate foundations of poetry, oratory, history and philosophy. When this balance is upset, the imaginative, poetic element in literature inevitably becomes disparagaed and neglected by the inductive criticism of scholastic intolerance.
On the basis of testimonies by ancient and modern poe...
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