Speaking of Beauty

ISBN: 0300105932

Author: Donoghue, Denis

Condition: New

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 ReviewA 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 MillerDonoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghues book is his appendix of afterwords, brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers.-John Bayley, New York Review of BooksContinuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You wont want to lay it down.-Hugh Kenner