In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeats's whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of his chaotic era.
Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the sublime achievement of The Tower), and then to the sometimes "mad" yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years. Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues: his art's demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his distress during Ireland's "Troubles." Yeats's deep absorption in female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and in supernaturalism and "the dead" comes strongly into play as well.
Macha Louis Rosenthal, poet, critic, editor, and teacher, was born on March 14, 1917, in Washington, D.C. He earned his B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1938) degrees at the University of Chicago. On January 7, 1939, he married Victoria Himmelstein, with whom he had three children: David, Alan, and Laura.
From 1939 to 1945, he taught as an instructor in English at Michigan State University. In 1946, he was hired as an instructor at New York University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1949. In 1961, he served in the U.S. Cultural Exchange Program and was visiting specialist to Germany; in 1965, to Pakistan; in 1966, to Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria; and in 1980, to Italy and France. In 1974, he was a visiting poet in Israel. From 1977 to 1979 he served as director of the Poetics Institute at New York University, where he was a professor of English until 1996.
Rosenthal was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and twice won Guggenheim Fellowships (1960–1964). He contributed poems, articles, and reviews to such leading journals as The New Yorker, the New Statesman, Poetry, The Spectator (London), ELH, and The Quarterly Review; he also served, from 1956–1961, as poetry editor of The Nation; from 1970-1978 as poetry editor of The Humanist; and from 1973-1990 as poetry editor of Present Tense. He published numerous books of criticism and collections of verse and edited various anthologies of poetry.
In 1973 Rosenthal was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.
M. L. Rosenthal died on July 21, 1996.
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这本书的书名——“奔向天堂”(Running to Paradise),一开始就给我带来了一种极强的画面感,仿佛能想象到有人在广袤的天地间,不顾一切地奔跑,目标是那传说中的、充满希望与安宁的彼岸。这种意象本身就充满了文学性的张力,引人遐思。我很好奇,作者究竟想通过“奔向天堂”来表达什么?是物质上的追求,还是精神上的解脱?是具体的目的地,还是一个抽象的概念?也许,这本书并不仅仅是在描绘一个简单的旅程,更可能是在探讨人类内心深处最原始的渴望与最执着的追寻。我喜欢这种能够激发读者自主思考的书名,它不直接揭示一切,而是像一扇虚掩的门,邀请你去推开,去探索门后的未知世界。
评分这本书的节奏把握得非常好。虽然它不像一些商业畅销书那样,每一页都充满了紧张刺激的情节,但它有一种独特的张力,能够牢牢地抓住读者的注意力。作者擅长在看似平静的叙述中埋下伏笔,在不经意间掀起波澜。我常常会在某个看似普通的段落里,突然被某个细节所震撼,或者被某个突然出现的转折所惊到。这种循序渐进的叙事方式,让整个阅读过程充满了期待感,也让故事的抵达更加有力。
评分不得不说,这本书在叙事结构上给了我很大的惊喜。它不像我之前读过的大多数小说那样,遵循着清晰的线性叙事。作者似乎更倾向于打破常规,通过一种……更加碎片化、更加意识流的方式来构建故事。一开始我有些不适应,感觉像是被丢进了一个巨大的迷宫。但是,当我慢慢沉浸其中,开始理解作者的意图时,我才发现这种看似混乱的结构,其实蕴含着一种别样的秩序。它更贴近真实的生活体验,那种记忆的闪回,那种思绪的跳跃,恰恰反映了我们大脑处理信息的方式。这种独特的叙事手法,让我在阅读过程中充满了探索的乐趣。
评分“奔向天堂”这个书名,在读完之后,赋予了我全新的理解。它不再仅仅是一个目的地,而更像是一种生命的态度,一种不断追求,不断超越自我的过程。即使最终无法抵达传说中的天堂,但在奔跑的过程中,我们所经历的、所感受的、所成长的,本身就已经是一种抵达。这本书提醒了我,人生最宝贵的,或许不是终点,而是那条充满荆棘却也充满风景的道路。
评分这本书带给我的思考是多方面的。它不仅仅是一个关于“奔向天堂”的故事,它更深入地探讨了“天堂”究竟意味着什么。是我们想象中的完美状态,还是一个我们永远无法触及的远方?在这个过程中,作者也触及了关于信仰、关于失去、关于救赎的议题。我特别欣赏作者处理这些宏大主题的方式,它不是生硬地灌输,而是巧妙地融入到人物的经历和选择之中,让读者在不知不觉中被引领着去思考。那些关于希望与绝望的辩证关系,关于个体在社会洪流中的位置,都让我反复咀嚼,回味无穷。
评分读完之后,我久久不能平静。作者笔下的世界,是如此的真实,又是如此的……不同寻常。那些描绘,那些细节,那种对人物内心世界的刻画,让我仿佛置身其中,成为了故事的一部分。我能感受到主人公在面对困境时的挣扎,在绝望中的坚持,以及在那些看似微不足道的瞬间里,所闪烁出的人性光辉。这本书不仅仅是在讲一个故事,它更像是在剖析人性,在挖掘那些我们深藏在心底的情感,那些我们可能自己都未曾完全认识到的部分。我特别喜欢作者对环境的描写,那些色彩,那些声音,那些气味,都栩栩如生,仿佛能透过文字直接触碰到我的感官。
评分总而言之,这本书是一次令人难忘的阅读体验。它不仅仅是一部小说,它更像是一面镜子,映照出我们内心深处的某些东西。它让我对生活有了更深的理解,对人性有了更深的认识。我强烈推荐这本书给所有热爱深度思考,追求阅读品质的读者。它值得你花费时间和精力去品味,去感受,去思考。
评分这本书的人物塑造是极为成功的。每一个人物,即使是那些篇幅不多的配角,都拥有自己独特的个性和生命力。他们不是扁平化的符号,而是鲜活的个体,有着自己的喜怒哀乐,有着自己的矛盾与挣扎。我最喜欢的是主人公与他身边的人之间的互动,那些对话,那些眼神的交流,都充满了微妙的情感。作者对人物心理活动的细腻描绘,让我能够深刻地理解他们的动机,他们的恐惧,他们的爱。特别是主人公内心的成长轨迹,那种从迷茫到坚定的转变,让我深受触动。
评分这本书带给我的感受是极其复杂且多层次的。它让我感到悲伤,让我感到喜悦,让我感到愤怒,也让我感到希望。作者并没有刻意去迎合读者的情绪,而是真实地展现了生活的复杂性。那些令人心碎的时刻,那些充满温情的瞬间,都被毫不保留地呈现在读者面前。我在阅读的过程中,不自觉地流下了眼泪,也露出了欣慰的笑容。这种能够触动人心深处,引发强烈情感共鸣的作品,是真正有价值的。
评分我一直在思考,是什么让这本书如此具有吸引力?我想,除了引人入胜的情节和深刻的主题之外,作者的语言功底也是至关重要的。他的文字,时而如涓涓细流,温柔细腻;时而又如惊涛骇浪,磅礴有力。他对词语的运用,对句式的安排,都恰到好处,能够精准地传达出人物的情感和场景的氛围。我尤其欣赏作者在描绘一些抽象概念时的表现力,那些难以言喻的情绪,那些模糊的思绪,在他的笔下变得具体而生动。阅读这本书,就像是在欣赏一幅幅精美的画卷,又像是在聆听一首首动人的旋律。
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