The Child of Pleasure (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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D'annunzio comes to remind us, very definitely, as only an Italian can, of the reality and the beauty of sen sation, of the primary sensations; the sensations of pain and pleasure as these come to us from our actual physi cal conditions; the sensation of beauty as it comes to us from the sight of our eyes and the tasting of our several senses; the sensation of love, coming up from a root in Boccaccio, through the stem of Petrarch, to the very flower of Dante. And so he becomes the idealist of ma terial things, while seeming to materialize spiritual things. He accepts, as no one else of our time does, the whole physical basis of life, the spirit which can be known only through the body, the body which is but clay in the shaping or destroying hands of the spirit. And, in Spite of a certain affectation of ideas, not always quite happily selected from Nietzsche and others, he takes nature very simply, getting sheer away from civil ization in his bodily consciousness of things, which he apprehends as directly, with however much added sub tlety, as a peasant of his own Abruzzi.

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