on 8/3/01 2:43 PM, Henry at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Candice, I don't see how you can extrapolate from my statements the demand
> that the philosophic yield to the lyric. Where do you find that?
>
> Henry
I said "desire" (not "demand"), and I saw it in your sketch of "bombast"
as intruding in a gap you see between "some initial, specific imagery" and
"the wide, grandiose emotive-spiritual gestures the images are meant to
trigger." You then go on to expand this gap, which becomes "huge," as it
intervenes between "a particular image" (i.e., characteristic of the lyric)
and "a big, abstract statement" (i.e., characteristic of the philosophic).
Candice
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