Word: textually
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Many readers may be disappointed by other textual changes. The beloved 121st Psalm ("I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help"), now takes on a distinctly new meaning: "If I lift up my eyes to the hills, where shall I find help?" The "valley of the shadow of death," in the 23rd Psalm, becomes "a valley dark as death." Those who look for "vanity of vanities" in Ecclesiastes will find now only a vacuum: "Emptiness, emptiness, says the Speaker, emptiness, all is empty...
Though its emphasis was on criticism-what Ransom christened the "New Criticism," with a stress on close textual analysis-the Kenyon also published fine poetry. Its first issue carried the work of a 22-year-old student at Kenyon College named Robert Lowell. Other issues ran a lot of early Dylan Thomas, much of Wallace Stevens and, later, some James Dickey. Its four issues a year, published in paperback format, were a delight to discriminating readers around the world, from Nehru to Ernest Hemingway...
...particularly in dealing with literature. Needless to say, the aesthetician is today almost dispensable, even obsolete, in the verbal disciplines. Critic W. K. Wimsatt states rather bluntly: "The intellectual character of language makes literature difficult for the aesthetician." If this point needs elaboration, simply look at some college students' textual analyses to see how many are technicians for whom a judgment of taste or pure form requires non-analytic tools we have forgotten...
...Minor textual details support the contention that the letter is a forgery, Butler said...