This essay quotes Vindice's contemplation of his lover's skull in The Revenger's Tragedy and comments on its "combination of... an intensely strong attraction toward beauty and an equally intense fasc
This essay quotes Vindice's contemplation of his lover's skull in The Revenger's Tragedy and comments on its "combination of... an intensely strong attraction toward beauty and an equally intense fascination by... ugliness... which destroys it." This essay gives the analogy of oxygen and sulfur dioxide and compares its intended audience to the shred of "finely filiated platinum" that catalyzes their reaction. This essay claims that mature art takes advantage of the "absolute" difference between "art and the event" to deliver a new, complex "art emotion." While discussing the difficulty of attaining its central concept, this essay claims that "Shakespeare acquired more essential (*) history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum." The author of this essay argues that the artist must understand that, while the "mind" of art changes, this change is not an improvement but an understanding of "which the past's awareness of itself cannot show." For 10 points, name this essay by T.S. Eliot concerning the relation of the poet to the past and "dead poets and artists."
This essay quotes Vindice's contemplation of his lover's skull in The Revenger's Tragedy and comments on its "combination of... an intensely strong attraction toward beauty and an equally intense fascination by... ugliness... which destroys it.
"Tradition and the Individual Talent"