In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poems... there lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »