The New Laokoon
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Faguet goes on to praise Diderot and point out the strength as well as the weakness of his; method. But both his strength and his weakness are equally remote from the strength and weakness of Lessing. Indeed, in the very pages that have fur- nished such important hints to Lessing, especially as to the importance of choosing the right moment in plastic art, Diderot discusses Homer in a way that anticipates not Lessing but Herder. Diderot is struck by the magic power that Homer and other great po...ets can confer on the slightest words and phrases so that they reverberate in the depths of our ' (Euvres de Diderot (fid. Assezat), I, p. 332. ^ Ibid. , p. 334. ^ Article " Diderot " in his Dix-Huitilme Slide.
[II9I THE NEW LAOKOON sensibility. He is interested in Homer not as a por- trayer of actions but as a suggester of images. He proclaims that, though poetry cannot paint to the eye, it can and must, if it is to rise above prose, paint to the imagination. You may, he says, have clearness, purity, precision ; you may show taste in your choice of words and in the careful rounding of your periods, — with all this you will have attained a good prose style, but still remain far short of poetry.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Faguet goes on to praise Diderot and point out the strength as well as the weakness of his; method. But both his strength and his weakness are equally remote from the strength and weakness of Lessing. Indeed, in the very pages that have fur- nished such important hints to Lessing, especially as to the importance of choosing the right moment in plastic art, Diderot discusses Homer in a way that anticipates not Lessing but Herder. Diderot is struck by the magic power that Homer and other great po...ets can confer on the slightest words and phrases so that they reverberate in the depths of our ' (Euvres de Diderot (fid. Assezat), I, p. 332. ^ Ibid. , p. 334. ^ Article " Diderot " in his Dix-Huitilme Slide.
[II9I THE NEW LAOKOON sensibility. He is interested in Homer not as a por- trayer of actions but as a suggester of images. He proclaims that, though poetry cannot paint to the eye, it can and must, if it is to rise above prose, paint to the imagination. You may, he says, have clearness, purity, precision ; you may show taste in your choice of words and in the careful rounding of your periods, — with all this you will have attained a good prose style, but still remain far short of poetry.
What to read after The New Laokoon?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Irving Babbitt to read onlineMoreLess
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