 ... poised on the edge of a precipice of bathos." It is clear that works so far out of the common have to be approached from the poet's own point of view. "Let the reader move his standpoint one inch nearer the popular standpoint," thus we are warned...  Washington University Studies - Page 112by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1913 - 292 pages
...that the phrase comes very near to being quite startlingly silly. It is as in the case of Maeterlinck, let the reader move his standpoint one inch nearer the popular standpoint, and there is nothing for the thing but harsh, hostile, unconquerable mirth. Somehow the image of Wilde... | |
 | Otto Heller - 1918 - 250 pages
...the confines of their normal consciousness, and in this strange world everything that comes to pass appears at first extremely impracticable and unreal....some works that can be appreciated for their good story, even if we fail to realize the author's moral attitude, let alone to grasp the deeper content... | |
 | Otto Heller - 1918 - 236 pages
...appears at first extremely impracti- ) cable luid unreal. The action seems "wholly dis- ") severed from common sense and ordinary uses;" ' the figures...some works that can be appreciated for their \ good story, even if we fail to realize the author's / moral attitude, let alone to grasp the deeper content... | |
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