 | Reginald Gibbons - 1989 - 320 páginas
...the lines ran: Thirty days hath September, August, May, and December. Poetry is not magic. Insofar as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate. "The unacknowledged... | |
 | A. Trevor Tolley - 1993 - 140 páginas
...(from The Dyer's Hand, 1963) in which Auden argues that poetry should disenchant us from untruths: Poetry is not magic. In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate. This view of poetry's... | |
 | Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb - 2003 - 324 páginas
...but because poetry is precisely not what advertising is: magic. Such is the import of Auden's dictum: "Poetry is not magic. In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate."19 Advertising, by... | |
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Poetry is not magic. In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate. 