Titlebook: Racine; R. C. Knight Textbook 1969Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1969 Europe.history of literature.literature.poetics.poetry

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The Tragedy of , (1949),y; so say not only Saint-évremond or ‘son ennemi Boileau’, but Louis Racine, who is moved to laughter by it, Voltaire and La Harpe, who treat it with a condescension bordering on contempt. Renan was almost the only man in the nineteenth century who deeply enjoyed Racine’s favourite tragedy; Sainte-B

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,Racine’s ,: an analysis (1959), among its peers. Would we not, perhaps, view La . more kindly if it had crowned the career of a Rotrou, or even a tottering Corneille? People seem not so much dissatisfied with the play itself as with Racine for having written it.

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The Poetics of the Glance in Racine (1954), up the right to . himself in the very act of sacrifice, and wins back, in the astonished glance of the universe, a new existence, transfigured by glory. Through that glance he receives a hundredfold whatever he has lost.

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,Action and Poetry in Racine’s Tragedies (1960),he two claims — advance and hover at the same time, bustle with Martha, and yet not interrupt the contemplation of Mary. A programme impossible, if not absurd. Yet Racine has carried it out, and seemingly without trying.’

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,Artistic Reasons for Racine’s Silence after , (1953) (In memoriam Gaston Broche),ught regular habits and drew a veil of respectability over the errors of the past; and Racine had succeeded in establishing a delicate balance, between elements as distinct as the King’s favour (including that of his favourites), his own ambition (an orphan’s lifelong desire for revenge over fate adverse) and his personal convenience.