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Sir George Stanly Lectures. Poetry Monads and Society

1941

I am grateful to the University of Madras for the invitation to the lectureship and the facilities it extended to me in the selection and preparation of my theme and to the University of Calcutta for permitting me to accept the lecture- ship and undertaking the publication of the work. [...] What is the force of 'imme- diate' in this definition ? In what sense can we say that the murder of Desdemona or the death of Cordelia evokes in us a sense of immediate pleasure ? One can understand the communica- tion of truth to be the object of science, for the possession of truth by the communicator is the condition of such communication. [...] Can it be said that the communication of pleasure in the same sense is the object of art ? To be communicated, the pleasure must already exist in the mind of the poet, but can the pleasure of poetry exist before its expression in the poem ? It will not even do to identify, with Dr. [...] The peculiar horror of this world is that the people in it are as much things as the gutter, the street, the cars, the pipes, etc. " But it is obvious that in such cases we are speaking of function only in a metaphorical sense, as we may speak of the function of the steering wheel in a motor car. [...] It defines the function of the poet, not as the solution of the problems of life, but as the evocation of their consciousness in the mind of man.
humanities general
Pages
213
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Humayan Kabir view
Preface
vii-viii unknown view
Poetry Pleasure and Utility
i-53 unknown view
Poetry Katharsis and Creativity
54-97 unknown view
Poetry Monads and Society
98-167 unknown view
Appendix William Butler Yeats
168-194 unknown view
Notes
195-198 unknown view
Index
199-204 unknown view

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