Denis Donoghue (academic) Quotes

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Eloquence, as distinct from rhetoric, has no aim: it is a play of words or other expressive means. It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and practice.

Denis Donoghue

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

Denis Donoghue

The dancing of speech is eloquence: the aim of a dance is not to get from one part of the village green or the stage to another, it is to create and embody yet another form of life beyond the already known forms of it. In dancing, the dancers enjoy the certitude of being alive in their bodies. That is eloquence.

Denis Donoghue

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue

Born: December 1, 1928

Died: April 6, 2021 (aged 92)

Bio: Denis Donoghue was an Irish literary critic. He was the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University.

Known for:

Speaking of beauty (2003)
On Eloquence (2007)
The practice of reading (1998)
Metaphor (2014)
Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot (2000)

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