Nietzsche’s Concept
by George Moore
TO FABIENNE, WITH FLOWERS
Who hath taught you so subtle a measure
in what hall have you heard it;
What foot beat out your time-bar
what water has mellowed your whistles?
Outweariers of Apollo will, as we know, continue
their Martian generalities
We have our erasers in order,
A new fangled chariot follows the flower-hung
horses;
A young Muse with young loves clustered about her
ascends with me into aether …
And there is no high road to the Muses
Ezra Pound
Homage to Sextus Propertius
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
The Tragic Recognition (Inspiration)
Apollo and Dionysius
Homer and the Epic
Archilochus and the Lyric
The Dithyramb
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Socrates and the Death of Tragedy
Critique and Transition
Against Romantic Sentiment (Truth)
Against Romantic Sentiment
The Poet as Actor
The Poet as Liar
The “Proof” of Poetry
The Transition to Style
Style
Tempo
The Epigram and the Poem
Nietzsche as Poet
Four Good Europeans:
Shakespeare’s Taste
Goethe’s Realism
Byron’s Manfred
Heine’s Germany
The Redemption of the Earth (Content)
The Psychology of the Poet
The Redemption of the Earth
The Innocence of the Senses
The Eternal Return
Epilogue: The Philosophy of the Future