New Bearings in English Poetry by F. R. Leavis

Author:F. R. Leavis [F. R. Leavis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571306732
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

Perhaps in this last passage Mr Eliot has been too helpful and ‘the higher dream’ is too like explicit elucidation. But it at any rate reminds us conveniently of certain things that he says in his Dante. He remarks23 of the ‘pageantry’ of the Paradise:

It belongs to the world of what I call the high dream and the modern world seems capable only of the low dream.

And he says elsewhere:24

Dante’s is a visual imagination. It is a visual imagination in a different sense from that of a modern painter of still life: it is visual in the sense that he lived in an age in which men still saw visions. It was a psychological habit, the trick of which we have forgotten, but as good as any of our own. We have nothing but dreams, and we have forgotten that seeing visions – a practice now relegated to the aberrant and the uneducated – was once a more significant, interesting, and disciplined kind of dreaming.

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