“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped… — 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
