8 juillet 2016
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Michael Heller, « Chapitre I. The Voice of the Impersonal », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.29929
Before I began this article I went back, as one must, to reading Eliot, to see again, how the themes of personality and impersonality are worked and reworked in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” that fundament of modernist poetics, in which he writes – we all know this by heart – that “the emotion of art is impersonal.” That “the artist who suffers is not the artist who writes,” etc. I went back, not only to refresh myself but also to remind myself that the poets who deeply int...