On Modern Poetry by Guido Mazzoni

Author:Guido Mazzoni [Mazzoni, Guido]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, Modern, 19th Century, 20th Century, Poetry, Comparative Literature, European, General
ISBN: 9780674276161
Google: OzhjEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: HarvardUP
Published: 2022-04-19T21:12:04+00:00

Expressivism

The idea of style as self-expression became established very quickly in Romantic culture and was summed up perfectly in a famous maxim (much quoted although misinterpreted) by Buffon: le style est l’homme même, the style is the man himself.37 At the end of the nineteenth century, Eduard Norden used this topos to underscore the distance between the ancient notion of form and the modern, Romantic, and post-Romantic conception:

what influence did the personality of the ancient writer have on style, or, in other words, what value did Buffon’s saying, le style est l’homme même, have for those times? … Style was once an art that had to be learned, and its rules could not be transgressed in the name of one’s own personality; after all, antiquity, much more than the modern era, has always demanded that the individual submit his or her own originality to the authority of tradition sanctioned by eminent critics—the mortification of genius.38

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