Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean Volume 1
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Excerpt: ...Even the Arcana Celestia of Platonism-what the sons of Plato had had to say regarding the essential indifference of pure soul to its bodily house and merely occasional dwelling-place-seemed to him while his heart was there in the urn with the material ashes of Flavian, or still lingering in memory over his last agony, wholly inhuman or morose, as tending to alleviate his resentment at nature's wrong. It was to the sentiment of the body, and the affections it defined-the flesh, of whose force and colour that wandering Platonic soul was but so frail a residue or abstract-he must cling. The various pathetic traits of the beloved, suf…
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Excerpt: ...Even the Arcana Celestia of Platonism-what the sons of Plato had had to say regarding the essential indifference of pure soul to its bodily house and merely occasional dwelling-place-seemed to him while his heart was there in the urn with the material ashes of Flavian, or still lingering in memory over his last agony, wholly inhuman or morose, as tending to alleviate his resentment at nature's wrong. It was to the sentiment of the body, and the affections it defined-the flesh, of whose force and colour that wandering Platonic soul was but so frail a residue or abstract-he must cling. The various pathetic traits of the beloved, suffering, perished body of Flavian, so deeply pondered, had made him a materialist, but with something of the temper of a devotee. As a consequence it might have seemed at first that his care for poetry had passed away, 126 to be replaced by the literature of thought. His much-pondered manuscript verses were laid aside; and what happened now to one, who was certainly to be something of a poet from first to last, looked at the moment like a change from poetry to prose. He came of age about this time, his own master though with beardless face; and at eighteen, an age at which, then as now, many youths of capacity, who fancied themselves poets, secluded themselves from others chiefly in affectation and vague dreaming, he secluded himself indeed from others, but in a severe intellectual meditation, that salt of poetry, without which all the more serious charm is lacking to the imaginative world. Still with something of the old religious earnestness of his childhood, he set himself-Sich im Denken zu orientiren-to determine his bearings, as by compass, in the world of thought-to get that precise acquaintance with the creative intelligence itself, its structure and capacities, its relation to other parts of himself and to other things, without which, certainly, no poetry can be masterly....
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-63970-5
- EAN: 9781153639705
- Produktnummer: 14785356
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.3 cm 130 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 130
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