Tag: Declamation
Continued from Sunday's post Book Award and last midnight's post Holding the Frame— The nineteenth-century German writer Rudolf Haym on German romantic Hellenism— "In the enjoyment of this…
High praise for a 1941 film— Major Barbara (Gabriel Pascal, 1941) — "There are some performances that bypass your critical faculties altogether, connecting not with your brain but with your soul….
"What on earth is a 'concrete universal'?" — Said to be an annotation (undated) by Robert M. Pirsig of A History of Philosophy , by Frederick Copleston, Society of Jesus. In…