What's your pleasure...?
September 29th 2006 10:06
What's your pleasure...poetry or prose?
I set the eyes over both, but the pure sublimity of great poetry is undeniable. Yet prose continues as the majority. Not that I mind being the minority, in fact it rather pleases me.
Coleridge says, prose - words in their best order, poetry - the best words in their best order. I’m sure you follow his meaning even if I have foundered in delivering it. His allegiance is clear, but he fails on a level that sublime poetry never fails on.
Cardinal Sin Mr Coleridge. I must read the Mariner and make my own mind on the matter of your poetry.
…The extent to which we can be persuaded is usually under our own control, but sublime passages exert an irresistible force and mastery and get the upper hand with every hearer.
Thought attributed to Longinus
Is all influence immoral as that great Irishman Oscar Wit says? If it be the case what then becomes of sublime writing? Sublime will? Do we cull Genius for being immoral? You may think I digress, a thing easy to do, but when you talk poetry you talk the Essence of Being.
I do not deny the genius of prose, and its ability in phases to infiltrate the senses, I have read many a great book and will continue to do so, but my allegiance is unwavering.
Ode to a Grecian Urn – Keats, I am humbled by your genius!
I set the eyes over both, but the pure sublimity of great poetry is undeniable. Yet prose continues as the majority. Not that I mind being the minority, in fact it rather pleases me.
Coleridge says, prose - words in their best order, poetry - the best words in their best order. I’m sure you follow his meaning even if I have foundered in delivering it. His allegiance is clear, but he fails on a level that sublime poetry never fails on.
Cardinal Sin Mr Coleridge. I must read the Mariner and make my own mind on the matter of your poetry.
…The extent to which we can be persuaded is usually under our own control, but sublime passages exert an irresistible force and mastery and get the upper hand with every hearer.
Thought attributed to Longinus
Is all influence immoral as that great Irishman Oscar Wit says? If it be the case what then becomes of sublime writing? Sublime will? Do we cull Genius for being immoral? You may think I digress, a thing easy to do, but when you talk poetry you talk the Essence of Being.
I do not deny the genius of prose, and its ability in phases to infiltrate the senses, I have read many a great book and will continue to do so, but my allegiance is unwavering.
Ode to a Grecian Urn – Keats, I am humbled by your genius!
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