Speaking of Beauty
Denis Donoghue
(Author)
Description
A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. "An excellent and eloquent book."-James Wood, New York Times Book Review "A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day."-J. Hillis Miller "Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghue's book is his appendix of 'afterwords, ' brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers."-John Bayley, New York Review of Books "Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."-Hugh KennerProduct Details
Price
$37.20
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publish Date
August 01, 2004
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.62 X 8.24 X 0.59 inches | 0.59 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780300105933
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
About the Author
Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University.
Reviews
"Speaking of Beauty is a beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day. Donoghue performs, like the rider in Wallace Stevens's essay, 'The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words, ' a heroic work of conservation and elevation."--J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
"Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."--Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era
"Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."--Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era
