The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.” — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest. — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image