Elevated discourse

[kate_schaefer]

My favorite critical sentence in the past random bit of time:

"Naturally, the two poets discussed their differences in the measured tones typically assumed by great artists, which is to say, Quevedo wrote a sonnet making fun of Góngora's nose."

-- David Orr, in "Ways of Saying," a review in the December 11, 2011, New York Times, of Edith Grosman's translation of The Solitudes, by Luis de Góngora

Comments

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I read the New York Times Book Review a month after it comes out so you won't have to...