Speaking of Beauty Book

A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. â??An excellent and eloquent book.â?â??James Wood, New York Times Book Reviewâ??A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day.â?â??J. Hillis Millerâ??Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghueâ??s book is his appendix of â??afterwords,â?? brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers.â?â??John Bayley, New York Review of Booksâ??Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You wonâ??t want to lay it down.â? â??Hugh Kennerâ?¢ A New York Times Notable Book Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He is also the author of The Practice of Reading and Words Alone, both published by Yale University Press.Read More