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Strict Wildness
Author | : Peter Viereck |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412813700 |
A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested in Viereck's coined phrase "strict wildness," which suggests a balance between restraint (which by itself is staid and rigid) and passion (which by itself is incoherent). Frost called free verse tennis without the net. Viereck calls dead mechanical form "net without the tennis." Strict wildness, then, is spontaneity of feeling within strict organic form. The book explores questions of modernism and poetic craft with respect to American poetry. It discusses the controversy over Ezra Pound's politics and its relation to his poetics, and the nearly forgotten poet Vachel Lindsay. Viereck offers more general views on poetics, including the fruitful tensions between form and content, and the impact of modern technology on poetic expression. This book also discusses history and politics, and contains essays on McCarthyism, the Cold War, political conformity of the Left and Right, and issues of historiography and culture that define Viereck's highly individual, often critical brand of conservatism. In treating representative trends and figures in conservative thought, Viereck insists on clear awareness of what exists to conserve, what ought to be conserved, and why it should be conserved. In their range and originality, the writings brought together in Strict Wildness constitute an ideal introduction to Peter Viereck's literary and political thought. It will be of interest to literary scholars, intellectual historians, and political scientists.
L Is for Love of Liberty
Author | : Adriane Sheffield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781886663077 |
The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty
Author | : Alexandre Dumas |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465581251 |
Aesthetic Origins
Author | : Jay Patrick Starliper |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351533703 |
While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and aesthetics. Challenging this, Jay Patrick Starliper examines the imagination through the lens of the work of Peter Viereck and other likeminded thinkers. The result is a philosophical deconstruction that demonstrates why books are bullets.In 1941, before Nazi barbarism was public knowledge, a young Peter Viereck published Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler. In it, Viereck attacked the diabolical spiritual foundations of National Socialism. He made the ostensibly absurd claim that a certain shade of romanticism was the ethical foundation of a German revolt against decency. According to Viereck, Nazism was the culmination of over a century and a half of bad culture, the result of an idyllic imagination. Starliper warns that the same diseased imagination that culminated in gas chambers and guillotines is subtly affecting the way millions of people view the world today and that, without the inspiration of an elevated aesthetic, civilization will not survive.In the spirit of Edmund Burke and Irving Babbitt, Viereck's insight into the ethical and political force of aesthetics provides a much needed critique of contemporary civilization.
Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant ...
Author | : Nathan Bailey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1730 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Empire for Liberty
Author | : Wai Chee Dimock |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691234566 |
Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."