Antiquity Forgot: Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon and Rembrandt

by Howard B. White

Book Overview

It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences. Anyone who has ever read Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire must be struck by the dreamlike quality of Rousseau's meditations. This dreamlike quality is still with us, and those who experience it find themselves ennobled by it. Witness Martin Luther King's famous "1 have a dream. " Dreaming and inspiration raise the artist to the top rung in the ladder ofhuman relations. That...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400996659
• ISBN13: 9789400996656
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"