I went to the city yesterday and bought:
- The Romantic Image[1][2] by Frank Kermode
- Venus’ lusthof[3] by Leonard de Vries, includes translation of Académie des dames ou le meursius francais and other curiosa
- Fabula Rasa by Gaston Burssens
Did not buy Sarenco : le triptyque du cinéma mobile, 1983-1987[4]: Félix Guattari, Eugenio Miccini, Luigi Serravalli and The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy[5] by J. L. Styan, 1968.
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The Romantic Image by Frank Kermode
The Romantic Image by Frank Kermode
The Romantic Image (1957) is a book on the “image” in Romantic poetry by Frank Kermode.
In its preface Kermode says he is indebted to Romantic Agony by Italian critic Mario Praz, The Romantic Soul and the Dream by Swiss critic Albert Béguin, The Mirror and the Lamp by M. H. Abrams and The Symbolist Aesthetic in France, 1885-1895 by A. G. Lehmann.
Kermode looks at two assumptions of relevance to modern poetry and criticism: first, “the image is the `primary pigment’ of poetry,” and, second, “the poet, who uses it is by that very fact differentiated from other men, and seriously at odds with the society in which he must live.” He calls these ideas “thoroughly Romantic,” and maintains that they remain fundamental for twentieth century writers and critics.
P.S. the cover of my edition has Odilon Redon’s “Orpheus”.
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you must have an enormous library. At a guesstimate – how many books do you have?
Actuall it’s very small. I took a picture of it just now but nighttime pictures are not so nice.
To answer your question. 400 max. I like small libraries, but specialized, so there a disproportionate amount of works on eroticism.
Jan
I also tend to sell stuff again, or give it away. My dream has always been to be mobile.