De Quincey aptly, if not expediently, classified literature into two types, literature of knowledge and lit-erature of power. He then went on to explain that ’the first speaks to the mere discursive understanding;the...De Quincey aptly, if not expediently, classified literature into two types, literature of knowledge and lit-erature of power. He then went on to explain that ’the first speaks to the mere discursive understanding;the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always throughaffections of pleasure and sympathy’. If we accept his word, we may further assert that poetry is certainlyliterature of power, and that in a concentrated form, because in poetry much more is always meant展开更多
文摘De Quincey aptly, if not expediently, classified literature into two types, literature of knowledge and lit-erature of power. He then went on to explain that ’the first speaks to the mere discursive understanding;the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always throughaffections of pleasure and sympathy’. If we accept his word, we may further assert that poetry is certainlyliterature of power, and that in a concentrated form, because in poetry much more is always meant
