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<p><p>a Foremost Critic Of The English Language Here Reflects On Beauty And The Language That It Inspires In Authors From Kant To Keats, Hawthorne To Housman. <br>“an Excellent And Eloquent Book.”—james Wood, <i>new York Times Book Review</i><br>“a Beautiful Book About Beauty. Enormously Learned, Allusive, Recuperative, And Citational, It Is A Passionate Meditation On What Has Been Said About Beauty In The West From The Greeks To The Present Day.”—j. Hillis Miller<br>“donoghue Talks . . . With A Delightful Informality And Absence Of Dogma. . . . One Of The Most Charming Features Of Denis Donoghue’s Book Is His Appendix Of ‘afterwords,’ Brief Quotations On Beauty From Sundry Writers.”—john Bayley, <i>new York Review Of Books</i><br>“continuously Fascinating, Continuously Readable, The Book Speaks Of Beauty, And Of Speakers Of Beauty, In Its Own Calm, Steady Voice. You Won’t Want To Lay It Down.”—hugh Kenner<br></i></b></b><p></p><h3>the New York Times</h3><p>donoghue's Book, Apart From Its Considerable Critical Power, Is Thus A Representative Document. It Is Written In Donoghue's Firm, Chaste -- A
- Author
- Donoghue, Denis
- Publisher
- London: Yale University Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300105933
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Humanities