Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers / / William Gerber.
This book explores and illustrates the individuating characteristics - and the interrelationships - of love, poetry, and literary immortality (such immortality, that is, as writers may win, in the sense of being long remembered and appreciated by future readers). From the book's numerous quotat...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 63 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1998. |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
63. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (140 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Thelma Z
- Lavine
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERRELATIONS OF LOVE, POETRY, AND LITERARY IMMORTALITY
- PART I THE TENDER PASSION: ON THE JOYS AND PERILS OF ROMANTIC LOVE
- Introduction
- ONE The Joys of Love
- TWO The Perils of Love
- THREE Other Momentous Features of Love
- Appendix to Part 1: Marlowe's Poem Come Live with Mee
- PART II WHAT CHANCE DOES AN ASPIRING AUTHOR HAVE OF REMAINING ALIVE IN THE MINDS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS? Introduction
- FOUR Authors Who Predicted Eternal Fame for Their Writings
- Conclusion of Part II Sources
- About the Author
- Index of Authors and Anonymous Documents Quoted.