By Annab Patterson
Annabel Patterson tackles the most well liked subject in literary stories this day - `the nice Books debate - supplying a wonderfully formulated reasonable stance among the Western canon's radical oppponents and its zealous protectors.
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We should be wary, however, of idealizing Toland, who seems to have been at best a scamp, and at worst an arduous plagiarizes 13. For a remarkably outspoken critique of Straussianism, see Shadia Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (New York, 1988). ” Times Literary Supplement 1–7 (1989): 1319–24, which builds on Drury’s critique but substitutes for her forthrightness a brilliant and blistering humor. 14. Strauss, “On a Forgotten Kind of Writing,” in What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies (Glencoe, 1959), 222.
1 However, while Dryden, marking the turn of the century by summarizing its literary achievements, appears to be offering a choice of traditions, in fact he proceeds in Fables to conflate them by translating Chaucer “into our Language, as it is now refin’d,” and therefore incorporating Chaucer’s rough soul into his own Augustan (Wallerian) poetics. Two lineal descents merge in Dryden himself, who has subsequently been presented more often as Milton’s successor than as his rival in Restoration culture; and, significantly, literary influence is conceived in terms of early modern English laws of inheritance.
15. , 1952), 33. 16 Despite his own insistence elsewhere on the irony of Socrates, and on irony as a tool of esotericism generally, Strauss discovered in the Laws a text which was not itself structurally ironic (that is to say, we are not invited to question the thesis of Plato’s cynicism) but rather an essay on political hypocrisy and double-speak. The classical text reveals, if you read it according to his own system, the final rationale for the arguments expressed in Persecution and the Art of Writing.
