| Howard Koch - 1980 - 284 pagini
...time of war, for acceptable levels of distortion. Emily Dickinson, in a poem about propaganda, advises "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant— / Success in circuit lies." Mission to Moscow had plenty of slant, but not enough truth. The film serves as a warning for those... | |
| Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pagini
...startled Grass That Darkness — is about to pass — "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—" (ca. 1868) Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind — Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln has perhaps... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pagini
...corresponding metaphysical truth overwhelm and totally engulf the frail consciousness of the observer: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind- Q n29] Such were the dangers of dealing with the unveiled mysteries of the sublime. The paradox was... | |
| Adena Rosmarin - 1985 - 218 pagini
...surprisingly, the explanation of these complexities itself grows complex. Chapter 3 The Mask Lyric Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies. Emily Dickinson Maintenant, je suis juge-penitent. Albert Camus Complicating the Rhetoric of Lyricism:... | |
| Robert Neal Wilson - 1986 - 190 pagini
...gave poetic point to this aspect of art's truth-value: Tell all the Truth but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight...Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind— 3 The humanist's voice claims, with persuasive rhetoric if not with wholly convincing evidence, that... | |
| John Bryant, Robert Milder - 1997 - 452 pagini
...Shakespeare, at the very time when Moby-Dick was taking form; so Emily Dickinson would enjoin us to "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— / Success in Circuit lies." 10 Even as truth-teller Ishmael is leading us out of our everyday world into the world of ships and... | |
| Sara R. Horowitz - 1997 - 296 pagini
...that is cognitively and psychologically unsettling to the reader. Like Emily Dickinson, who advises, 'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant / Success in Circuit lies" (248), Rawicz's narrator asks that one thinks through the world-shattering losses of the Shoah, rather... | |
| James S. Taylor - 1998 - 224 pagini
...Poetic Knowledge and the Integrated Humanities Program Tell all the Truth but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise. —Emily Dickinson o awaken wonder was the major work of the muses and of the Integrated Humanities... | |
| Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi - 1998 - 488 pagini
...Emily Dickinson once wrote in one of her poems is very relevant to the problematics of autobiography: "Tell all the truth, But tell it slant. Success in circuit lies." See Richard B. Sewall, "In Search of Emily Dickinson," in Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of... | |
| Barbara Williams - 1998 - 328 pagini
...reader is not overwhelmed. 7 was interested to find Emily Dickinson expressing a similar vieurpoint: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies [...] The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind - 3 Your words and Dickinson's both suggest... | |
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