一本图文版名言录。。。

一本图文版名言录，应该说是典型的大众读物，但其中有些条目的选择，以及供稿者的图谋，显然不太照顾大众。以下是书中“文学”板块的一句语录。如此狭小的空间内，供稿者（Jeffrey Dueck (JD), PhD, is associate professor of philosophy at Nyack College, New York. He teaches a wide variety of classes, and his writing focuses on existential and pragmatic themes, especially in religion and the arts）也想制造惊奇。

1001 QUOTATIONS TO ENLIGHTEN, ENTERTAIN, & INSPIRE

THE STORIES BEHIND THE MOST MEMORABLE QUOTES

p. 201

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

Time 1950

A golden age of drama in verse was inspired by the work of Marlowe and Shakespeare, but in the nineteenth century, theatrical plays employing poetry as a primary mode began to wane as conversation pieces, and prose rose to prominence. But for a period in the mid-twentieth century, verse-drama was revived in the work of T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry. Plays such as Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning (1948) and Venus Observed (1950) brought poetry back into the mainstream of British theater.

In his poetic plays, Fry used romantic rhetoric in response to his personal calling to speak with a distinctive voice. The way in which Fry voiced “his own amazement,” as he called it, was inspired by his Christian faith and an optimistic humanism. These shaped Fry’s magnanimous creativity; he was at peace with a world that could, despite its conflicts, reveal both truth and goodness. He once stated: “In prose, we convey the eccentricity of things, in poetry their concentricity, the sense of relationship between them: a belief that all things express the same identity and are all contained in one discipline of revelation.” JD

Photo: Christopher Fry on the set of the movie Ben-Hur (1959). He was one of the team of contributors to its screenplay.

当然，这里说的只是部分特例，也是此书to enlighten一说的由来，也免得有些读者觉得它“没料”，只侧重于to entertain. 关于读书，斯蒂芬.金的这句话也收录于本书：

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.