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Metaphor as a Sign of Genius
From Robert von Hallberg’s Lyric Powers: Aristotle will tell you that “The apt use of metaphor, being as it is, the swift perception of relations, is the true hall-mark of genius.” That abundance, that...
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Completed Continental Philosophy
Simon Critchley’s Continental Philosophy, like other VSIs that I have read, combines compactness, knowledge and, in this case, wisdom. Critchley explains how philosophy came to be divided into...
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Music is Feeling
Clerkly Peter Quince, inept playwright of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is (loosely) the narrator of Wallace Steven’s early poem Peter Quince at the Clavier. I enjoy the poem for its “music is feeling,...
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