pensamiento critico y practica poetica en donald davie - Universidad ...

pretencioso en cuanto al status de su obra: ‘Hardy was very ambitious
technically, and unambitious every other way” (THBP, 36). Davie ve en “his
formal disposition of verse unes; his symmetrical stanzas que ‘he on ihe page
demurely self-contained” (THBP, 36) una “unaccustomed civility” (THBP, 36).
Por ello, Davie observa “how little Hardy imposes himself on his reader”
, en el que every new reader of Hardys poetry finds there what he
wants te find’ (THBP, 28-29). Según Davie, la relación entre técnica y el
humanismo científico del liberalismo viene dada por “the relation between pure
science and applied science” (THBP, 39-40). Políticamente, el humanismo
científico se corresponde con el liberalismo de “the ethic of he laboratory”
y puede conducir a corporativismo. En palabras de Davie, “At the
scientist in his laboratory, as at he earnest liberal in his commitee, the radical
throws the angry word ‘cop-out’ - meaning by that precisely that the individua¡’s
modesty is what makes possible the corporate presumption”