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A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. ""An excellent and eloquent book.""-James Wood, New York Times Book Review ""A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day.""-J. Hillis Miller ""Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghue's book is his appendix of 'afterwords,' brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers.""-John Bayley, New York Review of Books ""Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down.""-Hugh Kenner

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"""quirky and learned... His ideas range freely within and between art history, literary criticism and aesthetics, with a few glimpses of autobiography besides;"" - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Times Literary Supplement ""An excellent and eloquent book."" - James Wood, New York Times Book Review ""Donoghue talks... with a delightful informality and absence of dogma."" - John Bayley, New York Review of Books ""Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."" - Hugh Kenner"""

quirky and learned... His ideas range freely within and between art history, literary criticism and aesthetics, with a few glimpses of autobiography besides; - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Times Literary Supplement An excellent and eloquent book. - James Wood, New York Times Book Review Donoghue talks... with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. - John Bayley, New York Review of Books Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down. - Hugh Kenner

Author Information

Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He is also the author of The Practice of Reading and Words Alone, both published by Yale.

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