Literary Criticism: a Short History by Wimsatt William K. Jr.;Brooks Cleanth;

Author:Wimsatt, William K., Jr.;Brooks, Cleanth;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1957-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eliot found in the bold and often strenuous figurative language of the metaphysical poets the necessary means for achieving “a direct sensuous apprehension of thought, or a recreation of thought into feeling.”4 He saw that the problem of “acceptable” metaphor was continuous with the general problem of poetic unity. Thus he writes:

A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility. When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.5

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