Vulgarity in Literature
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"[[Vulgarity in Literature]]" (1930) is an essay by [[Aldous Huxley]] [[criticizing]] the poetry of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. | "[[Vulgarity in Literature]]" (1930) is an essay by [[Aldous Huxley]] [[criticizing]] the poetry of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. | ||
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"In 1930, Aldous Huxley refuted early acclaim of Poe in "Vulgarity in Literature", a critique that accused him of producing mechanical rhythms and writing in egregiously bad taste." --Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 2014 "We who are speakers of English and not English scholars, who were born into the language and from childhood pickled in its literature - we can only say, with all due respect, that Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry are wrong and that Poe is not one of our major poets. A taint of vulgarity spoils, for the English reader, all but two or three of his poems— the marvellous ‘City in the Sea’ and ‘To Helen,’ for example, whose beauty and crystal perfection make us realize, as we read them, what a very great artist perished on most of the occasions when Poe wrote verse. It is to this perished artist that the French poets pay their tribute. Not being English they are incapable of appreciating those finer shades of vulgarity that ruin Poe for us, just as we, not being French, are incapable of appreciating those finer shades of lyrical beauty which are, for them, the making of La Fontaine. " --Aldous Huxley in "Vulgarity in Literature" (1930) |
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"Vulgarity in Literature" (1930) is an essay by Aldous Huxley criticizing the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.
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