 So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to...  Art Notes - Página 311por Macbeth Gallery - 1896Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 páginas
...In "The Sanity of True Genius" Lamb warily distances himself from all creative contact with madness: "So far from the position holding true, that great...contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers" (2: 187). Yet his criticism plainly reveals a fascination with the literary depiction of terror and... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - 1987 - 372 páginas
...Lamb, "The Sanity of True Genius," The Last Essays of Elia, ed. GE Hollingsworth (London, nd), p. 46: "So far from the position holding true, that great...writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood,... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - 1996 - 388 páginas
...True Genius he argued for a balance of faculties, much as the eighteenth-century writers had done: So far from the position holding true, that great...greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found in the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare. The greatness of... | |
 | Edwin Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable - 2002 - 424 páginas
...sufferers. Indeed, as Charles Lamb noted: "So far from the position holding true, that great wit . . . has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits on the contrary, will ever be found in the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare."' Many famously... | |
 | Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower - 2006 - 460 páginas
...connection between genius and madness: So far from the position holding true, that great wit [ie genius] has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest...writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly understood, manifests... | |
 | Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison - 2007 - 1290 páginas
...a balance of faculties, much as the eighteenth-century writers had done (Lamb, 1987, pp. 212-213): Far from the position holding true, that great wit...greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found in the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare. The greatness of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 páginas
...and gentlemen — on both sides of the curtain. The Last Essays of Elia. 1825. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | E. Derry Evans - 1930 - 124 páginas
...by the humble manufacturer of the mediaeval missal. London Matriculation, September izth, 1910. 55 So far from the position holding true, that great...writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive a mad Shakespeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood,... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 184 páginas
...In "The Sanity of True Genius" Lamb warily distances himself from all creative contact with madness: "So far from the position holding true, that great...contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers" (2: 187). Yet his criticism plainly reveals a fascination with the literary depiction of terror and... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1892 - 778 páginas
...with epilepsy. Charles Lamb* says: So far from the position holding true that great wits or geniuses, In our modern way of speaking, has a necessary alliance...found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for mind to conceive of a mad Shakespere. The greatness of wit (by which the poetic talent is here understood)... | |
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