What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed, ...and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores... This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T'enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th'yet unformed Occident May come refined with th'accents that are ours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And who in time knowes whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores... This gaine of our best glorie shal be sent, T'inrich unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in th'yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th'accents that are ours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as Michelangelo saw the "David" in the raw, unformed block of marble before he struck it with his chisel, we as parents can i...magine the fine adult human beings who will emerge from our children's growing, evolving selves. By holding this image in our minds, we can, through our encouragement, nurture our children to blossom into their fullest potential. Each child has his own individual expressions to offer to the world. That expression can take many forms, from artistic interests, a way of thinking, athletic activities, a particular style of dressing, musical talents, different hobbies, etc. Our job is to join our children in discovering who they are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & unformed & unimportant drivel; & until the raw ingredients of a ...pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation & thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »