 To the few who love me and whom I love — to those who feel rather than to those who think — to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities — I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the...  University of Toronto Quarterly - Page 265by University of Toronto - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - 956 pages
...dreams as in the only realities — I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of TruthTeller, incipium individua-^ tionis, e — there What I here propound is truefore it cannot die: — or if by any meaw it be now trodden... | |
 | Lindsay Waters, Wlad Godzich - 1989 - 323 pages
...fictive preface to Eureka we read: "I offer this book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth, constituting...I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem. What 1 here propound is true', —therefore it cannot die" (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9, Eureka... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - 1990 - 374 pages
...of the truth-value of the work: I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character as Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true . . . What I here propound is true . . . Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to... | |
 | Jacques Derrida - 1991 - 676 pages
...fictive preface to Eureka we read: "I offer this book of truths, not in its character of TruthTeller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth, constituting...here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die" (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9, Eureka and Miscellanies [Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895],... | |
 | Jacques Derrida - 1992 - 476 pages
...fictive preface to Eureka we read: "1 offer this book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth, constituting...here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die" (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9, Eureka and Miscellanies [Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895],... | |
 | Jutta Ernst - 1996 - 218 pages
...verstanden wissen will: "[...] I present the composition äs an Art-Product alone: - let us say äs a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, äs a Poem" (184). Auch der Untertitel des Buches betont den künstlerischen Aspekt, offeriert allerdings... | |
 | Rachel Polonsky - 1998 - 276 pages
...in dreams as the only realities - I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth - constituting...Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.46 Bryusov described Poe's philosophy as 'the pantheism of individuality'. He appears to discern... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...Eureka, subtitled A Prose Poem. This he addressed in a preface to the few readers who could appreciate it "for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it True." To this elite group he proffered the book "as an Art- Product alone . . . or, if I be not urging too lofty... | |
 | Bruce Mills - 2005 - 225 pages
...poetic voiced in his "Marginalia," "I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true." Though the content of his work would have positioned it alongside such scientific studies as the "Bridgewater... | |
 | Jacques Derrida - 2007 - 472 pages
...fictive preface to Eureka, we read: "I offer this book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth, constituting...it true. To these I present the composition as an Art- Product alone, — let us say as a Romance; or if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.... | |
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