Poetic Justice
Subtitle: The Literary Imagination and Public Life
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: April 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780807041093
Subjects: Literary theory; Philosophy; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Philosophy / General
First sentence: Noting in his children a strange and unsavory exuberance of imagination, an unwholesome flowering of sentiment-in short, a lapse from that perfect scientific rationality on which both private and public life, when well managed, depend-Mr. Gradgrind, economist, public man, and educator, inquires into the cause: "Whether," said Mr. Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, "whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything?