E - T a m i l : ஈ - தமிழ்

("We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying that author an undeserved compliment.")

("I suggest that a ten or twenty years - abstinence both from the reading and from the writing of evaluative [literary] criticism might do us all a great deal of good.")

("The real way of mending a man's taste is not to denigrate his present favourites but to teach him how to enjoy something better.")

("Poetry confines itself more and more to what only poetry can do; but this turns out to be something which not many people want done. Nor, of course, could they receive it if they did. Modern poetry is too difficult for them. It is idle to complain; poetry so pure as this must be difficult. But neither must the poets complain if they are unread. When the art of reading poetry requires talents hardly less exalted than the art of writing it, readers cannot be much more numerous than poets.")

("Every book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment, in this sense, is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide even that, we may be excused from inquiry into its higher qualities.")

("[The academic discipline of] ‘English Literature’ directs to the study of literature a great many talented, ingenious, and diligent people whose real interests are not specifically literary at all. Forced to talk incessantly about books, what can they do but try to make books into the sort of things they can talk about? Hence literature becomes for them a religion, a philosophy, a school of ethics, a psychotherapy, a sociology - anything rather than a collection of works of art.")

("As the unmusical listener wants only the Tune, so the unliterary reader wants only the Event. The one ignores nearly all the sounds the orchestra is actually making; he wants to hum the tune. The other ignores nearly all that the words before him are doing; he wants to know what happened next.")

இடுகையிட்டது Boston Bala நேரம் 1/17/2006 11:52:00 AM