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Moving from Greece to Elizabethan England, Steiner notes that Victor Hugo called Shakespeare "Aeschylus the second." It wasn't quite true. Shakespeare violated the classic unities of time, place and action and altered the tragedy of destiny to the tragedy of will. The underlying unity of Shakespearean tragedy, as...
Negroes who write dislike being classified as "Negro writers"; yet almost without exception, that is what they are-not because they write about Negro life, but because they tend to be obsessed with the Negro's relationship to the white world. James Baldwin shares that obsession, but he expresses...
Reason Is Evil. To the romantic temperament, nothing succeeds like excess, and Yeats preached the dogma of excess as an esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where...
"Further, I believe that the current obsession about the level of America's prestige in the world obscures the principles that should guide us. Those who talk constantly of our prestige seem to believe that we are in a popularity contest.* We are in a fight for our lives...
At 6 o'clock every weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what...