 ... even when arrayed in the wondrous and ecstatic beauty of Blake's verse — comes upon the ordinary man, in the rigidity of its uncompromising elevation, with a shock which is terrible, and almost cruel. The sacrifices which it demands are too vast,...  The Living Age - Página 1271923Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lytton Strachey - 1922 - 338 páginas
...cruel. The sacrifices which it demands are too vast, in spite of the divinity of what it has to offer. What shall it profit a man, one is tempted to exclaim,...if he gain his own soul, and lose the whole world ? The mystic ideal is the highest of all ; but it has no breadth. The following lines express, with... | |
 | Zsuzsa Rawlinson - 2006 - 214 páginas
...more serious objection to Blake's mysticism - and indeed to all mysticism: its lack of humanity. [...] What shall it profit a man, one is tempted to exclaim,...if he gain his own soul, and lose the whole world? The mystic ideal is the highest of all; but it has no breadth.27 With Voltaire and also with Strachey,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1923 - 738 páginas
...as entertaining as real life. The world is what Mr. Strachey must have for his entertainment if even literary work be his standard of holy living. "What...politicians, such as Gladstone. But poor Blake never realised that for all his marrying of heaven and hell he was hopelessly on the wrong track. If he really... | |
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