The Well-Tempered Critic
The Well-Tempered CriticI’m a literary critic, trying to figure out how language turns into Literature, and how Literature turns back into the human condition. My Substack is where those thoughts get distilled into something sharper than idle impressions.
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Da Repulsa Moral
Na tradição clássica do pensamento, o coração do homem nunca foi visto apenas como fonte de sentimentos irracionais, mas como algo profundamente ligado à vida moral: o campo onde se decide o sentido último de nossa existência e o nosso dest...
Homer’s Iliad: Literature and the Moral Imagination
When we speak about the function of literature and the purpose of literary culture in the human mind, two aims are usually invoked - seemingly opposed, yet not truly incompatible. The first is literature as an art form. In the nineteenth ce...
Why Terry Eagleton Misunderstood T.S. Eliot
I recently realized that the English literary critic Terry Eagleton, in his book Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read (2022), makes a notable misstep in his reading of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfr...
A Close Reading of Dana Gioia’s “Meet Me at the Lighthouse”
While delivering his speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, the Mexican poet Octavio Paz remarked: “Poetry is in love with the instant and seeks to relive it in the poem, thus separating it from sequential time and tur...
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“When we meet an unfamiliar experience in literature, the relevant question is not, is this true? but, is it imaginatively conceivable?”- Northrop Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic (1961).
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