Frases de Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis pintor, romancista e ensaista inglês foi, ao lado de Ezra Pound um dos fundadores do movimento artístico Vorticism e editor da revista Blast . Seus romances mais importantes são Tarr , The Childermass , The Apes of God e The Revenge for Love . Time and Western Man, The Art of Being Ruled são vigorosos ensaios que tratam de arte, literature, política e metafísica. Durante sua longa, diversificada e fecunda carreira, Lewis editou, além do mencionada Blast, diversas revistas tais como The Ennemy e Tyro. Em obras como Paleface, a contundência da crítica de Lewis aproxima-as mais do panfleto do que propriamente da ensaística. Lewis pode ser considerado uma das figuras seminais do modernismo, ao lado de Pound, Eliot e James Joyce. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Novembro 1882 – 7. Março 1957
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Wyndham Lewis: Frases em inglês

“Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire.”

Notes to Kenneth Allott, as quoted in Contemporary Verse (1948) edited by Kenneth Allott<!-- Penguin, London -->
Contexto: Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire. An ideal formula of ironic, gently "satiric", self-expression was provided by that master for the undergraduate underworld, tired and thirsty for poetic fame in a small way. The results of Mr Eliot are not Mr Eliot himself: but satire with him has been the painted smile of the clown. Habits of expression ensuing from mannerism are, as a fact, remote from the central function of satire. In its essence the purpose of satire — whether verse or prose — is aggression. (When whimsical, sentimental, or "poetic" it is a sort of bastard humour.) Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

“Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.”

Notes to Kenneth Allott, as quoted in Contemporary Verse (1948) edited by Kenneth Allott<!-- Penguin, London -->
Contexto: Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire. An ideal formula of ironic, gently "satiric", self-expression was provided by that master for the undergraduate underworld, tired and thirsty for poetic fame in a small way. The results of Mr Eliot are not Mr Eliot himself: but satire with him has been the painted smile of the clown. Habits of expression ensuing from mannerism are, as a fact, remote from the central function of satire. In its essence the purpose of satire — whether verse or prose — is aggression. (When whimsical, sentimental, or "poetic" it is a sort of bastard humour.) Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.