登陆注册
5447800000008

第8章

Fixity in the midst of change, fluctuation at the heart of sameness, such is the estate of language.According as they endeavour to reduce letters to some large haven and abiding-place of civility, or prefer to throw in their lot with the centrifugal tendency and ride on the flying crest of change, are writers dubbed Classic or Romantic.The Romantics are individualist, anarchic;the strains of their passionate incantation raise no cities to confront the wilderness in guarded symmetry, but rather bring the stars shooting from their spheres, and draw wild things captive to a voice.To them Society and Law seem dull phantoms, by the light cast from a flaming soul.They dwell apart, and torture their lives in the effort to attain to self-expression.All means and modes offered them by language they seize on greedily, and shape them to this one end; they ransack the vocabulary of new sciences, and appropriate or invent strange jargons.They furbish up old words or weld together new indifferently, that they may possess the machinery of their speech and not be possessed by it.They are at odds with the idiom of their country in that it serves the common need, and hunt it through all its metamorphoses to subject it to their private will.Heretics by profession, they are everywhere opposed to the party of the Classics, who move by slower ways to ends less personal, but in no wise easier of attainment.The magnanimity of the Classic ideal has had scant justice done to it by modern criticism.To make literature the crowning symbol of a world-wide civilisation; to roof in the ages, and unite the elect of all time in the courtesy of one shining assembly, paying duty to one unquestioned code; to undo the work of Babel, and knit together in a single community the scattered efforts of mankind towards order and reason; - this was surely an aim worthy of labour and sacrifice.Both have been freely given, and the end is yet to seek.The self-assertion of the recusants has found eulogists in plenty, but who has celebrated the self-denial that was thrown away on this other task, which is farther from fulfilment now than it was when the scholars of the Renaissance gave up their patriotism and the tongue of their childhood in the name of fellow-citizenship with the ancients and the oecumenical authority of letters?

Scholars, grammarians, wits, and poets were content to bury the lustre of their wisdom and the hard-won fruits of their toil in the winding-sheet of a dead language, that they might be numbered with the family of Cicero, and added to the pious train of Virgil.It was a noble illusion, doomed to failure, the versatile genius of language cried out against the monotony of their Utopia, and the crowds who were to people the unbuilded city of their dreams went straying after the feathered chiefs of the rebels, who, when the fulness of time was come, themselves received apotheosis and the honours of a new motley pantheon.The tomb of that great vision bears for epitaph the ironical inscription which defines a Classic poet as "a dead Romantic."In truth the Romantics are right, and the serenity of the classic ideal is the serenity of paralysis and death.A universal agreement in the use of words facilitates communication, but, so inextricably is expression entangled with feeling, it leaves nothing to communicate.Inanity dogs the footsteps of the classic tradition, which is everywhere lackeyed, through a long decline, by the pallor of reflected glories.Even the irresistible novelty of personal experience is dulled by being cast in the old matrix, and the man who professes to find the whole of himself in the Bible or in Shakespeare had as good not be.He is a replica and a shadow, a foolish libel on his Creator, who, from the beginning of time, was never guilty of tautology.This is the error of the classical creed, to imagine that in a fleeting world, where the quickest eye can never see the same thing twice, and a deed once done can never be repeated, language alone should be capable of fixity and finality.Nature avenges herself on those who would thus make her prisoner, their truths degenerate to truisms, and feeling dies in the ice-palaces that they build to house it.In their search for permanence they become unreal, abstract, didactic, lovers of generalisation, cherishers of the dry bones of life; their art is transformed into a science, their expression into an academic terminology.Immutability is their ideal, and they find it in the arms of death.Words must change to live, and a word once fixed becomes useless for the purposes of art.Whosoever would make acquaintance with the goal towards which the classic practice tends, should seek it in the vocabulary of the Sciences.There words are fixed and dead, a botanical collection of colourless, scentless, dried weeds, a HORTUS SICCUS of proper names, each individual symbol poorly tethered to some single object or idea.

同类推荐
  • 博物志

    博物志

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 幔亭集

    幔亭集

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 元朝典故编年考

    元朝典故编年考

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl

    The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 金华子杂编

    金华子杂编

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
热门推荐
  • 世界科学博览2

    世界科学博览2

    本书是一部融知识性、趣味性、科学性于一体的科普类图书。力图全方位诠释科学领域的种种现象,引领读者进入精彩玄妙的科学世界,更加立体、真实地感受奇妙的科学之旅,使大家在享受阅读快感、学习科学知识的同时,获得更为广阔的文化视野、审美享受和想象空间。
  • 轻晨皇后

    轻晨皇后

    此为公告(必看):我要在这里向所有追此文的读者致歉,因为某亚的文在某几个部分有抄袭扶摇皇后的嫌疑,因此编辑通知要解禁删文,当然无忧和如风的故事不会结束的,某亚将会开新文,并且在这次的新文完结后我会继续他们的故事,但是会换身份,情节也会变动!如果亲们还喜欢某亚的话,就希望大家还能支持某亚!这次的错误某亚绝对会改正!新文也绝不再犯这样的错误!还有,我也要向天下归元道歉,郑重向她道歉,希望能得到她的原谅!亲们买的章节因为某亚解禁删文这个月某亚是拿不到钱的,但尽管如此某亚觉得有点对不起大家,所以在开新文的时候第一天留言的亲都有潇湘币来送,以此表达某亚的歉意!也希望亲们能监督某亚,谢谢!—————————————————————————————————某亚新建了一个群,希望亲们走过路过能加入啊!群号:139455434,群的名字是未留。枫忆じ读者群,敲门砖是某亚的笔名或者文章名以及主角名!某亚热切期待亲们的加入!—————————————————————————————————某亚的新文地址:《狂世傲颜》希望亲们多多捧场啊!新文简介:++++++她,东临大陆十大世家之一的嫡女,体弱多病,懦弱无能,习武资质奇差无比,生来丑颜!在武者为尊的东临大陆上处处遭人耻笑,指腹为婚的未婚夫鄙视不屑,被迫退婚…所爱之人再三羞辱与她,唯有父母宠溺,却也因她的废物而成为笑柄…++++++她,西风大陆的武道顶尖强者,女扮男装,从小小的藩王世子到权势滔天的当朝摄政王!背负着家族的血海深仇,一步一步走上权力的巅峰,终成一代风云霸者!帝王的阴谋,心腹的背叛,政变的发生,动手之时被暗算而死…当惊才绝艳的她穿越到废柴无能的世家嫡女又会发生怎样的变化?体弱多病的她因为再三的羞辱而一命呜呼,再度睁开眼之时,又是如何让众人不屑一顾的目光变为痴迷与崇敬?重生后的她是翱翔于九霄之上的涅槃之凤,是世人为之疯狂的旷世奇才,是傲视天下风华绝代的霸者!女主自语:我从来就不是个好人,别人敬我一分我敬他一尺,若是他人羞辱于我我必要对方付出百倍的代价来讨回,而对于我在意的人的羞辱我同样会让他求生不得求死不能!总有一天我定要立于这世界的巅峰俯视众人,将世间风华尽握于手,我以南辰如风之名起誓!++++++
  • 异世荒野直播

    异世荒野直播

    我曾生活在巨树遮天的魔兽雨林,与安徒恩正面交锋,也曾穿越过尸气弥漫的腐烂之地,与死亡骑士并肩而行;我曾潜伏在烈焰升腾的熔火之城,偷取变形金刚的动力核心,也曾混迹在似真似幻的元素位面,骑着暴鲤龙周游世界;我叫凌默,是一名武神,此时正在深渊位面为您直播,看看我身后这岩浆荒原,老实说刺鼻的硫磺气息实在太糟糕了,但我……等等!前面有一只吸血魔兽!吸血魔兽体格健壮,营养丰富,只要去掉头,其他部分都可以食用,嘿嘿!嘿嘿嘿!以上是文艺版,下面是简洁版:直播路线:魔兽雨林(自然系魔兽为主),腐烂之地(死灵系),熔火之城(机械系),元素位面(幻想系),深渊位面(恶魔系),后续待定
  • 气血才是命根子

    气血才是命根子

    为什么有的女人面色红润、灿若桃花、光彩照人,而有的女人却是灰头灰脸,头发干枯、没有光泽、皮肤粗糙、痤疮暗斑、月经不调呢?这些都是肾气不足或者肝郁气滞造成的,美容的根本是保养身体气血的运行机理。为什么有许多女人在冬季手脚冰凉,甚至夏天也手脚冰凉呢?中医理论认为这是气虚、气滞、阳气不足的反应,需要疏通经络,活血化瘀,改善血液循环和新陈代谢。气血畅通,“冰美人”就能够换新颜!癌症、淋巴结核、肿瘤、乳腺小叶增生等病是怎样形成的?中医认为是气滞造成的,寒凝和忧思导致气聚在一起,气血运行不畅,就像下水道堵塞、积习日久,器官就发生病变。
  • 电竞没有女,朋友!

    电竞没有女,朋友!

    凭什么女生不能打电竞?凭什么女生活该被虐菜?凭什么女生见到完美男神就一定要谈恋爱?当所有人都知晓她的身份,只有他一人蒙在鼓里。他这种人,喜欢一个人不容易你是男生,我们做兄弟你是女生,我们在一起悲催式男主,被女主掰弯再掰直她拒绝恋爱有什么意思?能有游戏好玩?女扮男装谨小慎微爆肝训练自虐向前所有这些牺牲都是为了实现梦想而不是谈恋爱!
  • 甜妻v5:霍少,求抱抱!

    甜妻v5:霍少,求抱抱!

    黑夜,漫长无尽的黑夜。屋内,一片混乱,一室旖旎。“陌哥哥……陌哥哥……”她的唇中……
  • 铁老大(2)

    铁老大(2)

    小道消息,部里要从北方抽调八百名警察,来银都打击炒票活动!这一消息对于银都铁路局银都火车站站长叶梦琦来说,犹如一声霹雳。但这声霹雳只在半空中响了一声,就烟消云散了。京城一家大新闻机构驻银都铁路局的特派记者倪思源,在采访银都铁路公安处处长朱一之时得知,叶梦琦平时总是把大把大把的车票弄到各个售票点去卖,旅客在车站排了长队反而买不到票。在倪思源的思维里,多办售票点,让旅客一出门就能买到票,这可是方便群众的举措,是部里推广的做法。可朱一之说,他们把大把大把的车票投送到各个代售点去卖,就是为了每张票多收取5元钱的订票费。
  • 全才魔法师

    全才魔法师

    21世界的黑帮女老大一朝穿越到光辉大陆罗格家没有任何元素属性的废柴三小姐阿芙拉身上。在继承废柴体质的同时,也继承了阿芙拉的记忆,温暖的亲情,宁静的生活,原以为这辈子就这么过了,然而国王的猜忌,家族的荣耀,落水的真相…意味着,没有强大的实力,一切都将成为镜花水月。自此远走边陲小镇,遇良师,交益友,捡神兽,食炎果最终激发出体内潜藏的的魔法元素,木元素、火元素、水元素、土元素、金元素纷至沓来。且看一代绝色红颜如何谱曲一首华丽的篇章。十年之后,爱玛学院出现了一位神秘人物——兰诺。传说,他不止会火系魔法,还能使用水系魔法;传说,他是某国的王位第一顺位继承人;传说,罗格家的废物三小姐是其情人;传说……菩提花开群魔净出魔王从幽深之地归来民不聊生五行之子携光明而来…六个绝世天才的诞生,终于唤起人们对古老的预言的记忆,谁才是五行之子,谁才是拯救大陆于危难的英雄…收养:萩铭心收养丸子~汐殇玥收养纳塔~**********************************************推荐彩虹的新文《凤临天下,皇后有点坏》没钱,没权,没势力,还没老爹自生自灭十五载,还被当做礼物送人骆含烟一睁眼面对的就是这一幕很好,你们不仁也别怪我不义骆含玉:“含烟妹妹,我来送送你,虽是做人第三十八房小妾,不过好歹也算有名分,生出来的孩子也不是野种、杂种之类的啊!”一双素手撩开轿帘,一道玉影缓缓而下:“姐姐说得对极了,做妹妹的我怎么能不成全姐姐的心愿呢?”“啊……”女子头一载,晕倒在地,骆含烟一脚把她踢进了轿子里,拍拍手扬长而去!某男:“含烟,你是我见过最美的女人,第一次见面我就不由自主的爱上了你!”某女:“你记得清楚这是你对第几百个女人说这话了吗?”某男:“烟,你真没一点浪漫细胞!”某女:“浪漫?浪漫一斤值多少钱,饿了能挡饱,寒了等当衣吗?你这点伎俩,还是去骗骗无知小女孩吧!”某男:“含烟,请你相信我,我是真心……啊,你敢打我!你知道我是谁吗?”“滚开!”一黑衣男子长身玉立,双眼喷火,扛起骆含烟流星踏步般走了!“女人,你在挑战我的耐性!”天都城暗香楼,宾客云集一曼妙少女玉身而立,口吐狂言:“男人什么滴都是浮云,食之无味,弃之可惜,可偶尔玩玩兮!”
  • 我懂得,你不是一个人

    我懂得,你不是一个人

    本书是一本短篇散文合集,献给给二十岁刚出头的奋斗小青年。心怀着最遥远的理想,然而现实是像白开水一样平淡的生活。生活的酸甜苦辣都平铺在面前,有时候看不到更远的地方,无法预测未来,过往也无多大参考性,内心却渴望生活不仅如此,不该如此,所以会往更多的在同龄人身上寻找一种正面温暖的能量。本书集结当红作者们的经历,关于亲情,爱情,友情,梦想,人生,种种情绪,悲欢喜乐,陪你度过一个人的漫长时光。原来你所经历过的酸甜苦辣都不算什么,他们都曾经经历过。所以不管是此刻孤独,艰难,遗憾,还是彷徨的你,请记住,“亲,你不是一个人。”他们懂得,他们也记得。
  • 爆宠懒妃:邪帝,请节制

    爆宠懒妃:邪帝,请节制

    琼花醉梦,一杯琼花醉,醉得是几世梦,却似梦非梦。她是天界唯一一个成为上神的树灵,以琼花醉而闻名。她误食了别人向她讨要的琼花醉,醉了一世梦,醒来后却物是人非……千年之后,她魂归一体,重塑真身,却惹了一个极品妖孽。当焰火遇上冰块,冰与火的碰撞触发。成亲后,某妖孽越发粘人……某男:“娘子,为夫的裤子呢?”“娘子,我的儿子女儿呢?”以后的以后,某男:“娘子,你在哪啊!”某女:“……”(本文女主前期单纯,偶然高冷,后期强大!)