Blair Hoxby on Aristotle’s Poetics
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
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🗓️ 8 March 2011
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is KZSU, Stanford. |
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| 0:12.7 | My name is Robert Harrison, |
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| 0:29.3 | Okay. campus. Ah, |
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| 0:29.8 | Ah. While |
| 0:40.3 | While preparing for the crystal punch, I'm like a mom with God your locks and summer flowers, |
| 0:54.8 | my pose and burning fire at night. |
| 0:57.6 | While preparing for today's show on Aristotle's Poetics, |
| 1:00.8 | I was overcome by a feeling of bliss, the bliss of reading the Greeks again. |
| 1:06.2 | Nothing shines like the Greeks. |
| 1:08.8 | In Thoreau's words, quote, |
| 1:10.6 | Later writers say what we will of their genius, |
| 1:13.5 | have rarely, if ever, |
| 1:15.2 | equaled the elaborate beauty |
| 1:16.9 | and finish of the Greeks. |
| 1:19.9 | Frederick Nietzsche put it even better, |
| 1:21.7 | quote, oh, those Greeks, they knew how to live. |
| 1:25.6 | What is required for that |
| 1:27.1 | is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, |
| 1:32.0 | to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. |
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