Thomas Hardy, a Critical Study
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In modern literature, the theory of ideal love — of love, namely, which is something more than a refinement of sexual desire — works out into two kinds of practice, directly opposed. In both, man is dominated by the desire for a transcendental perfection. Dante is the great instance of the one kind. With him the desire can only be aroused from its sleep in man's heart by vision of one who is not only a credible image of perfection, but who, for the man concerned, actually is the eternal perfect...ion temporally embodied. Once roused, therefore, the desire can never change its object without sinning against love ; but also, the desire can never be satisfied unless in the beatific vision ; since, though roused among temporal affairs, it is a desire for one eternal thing. But in the other and much commoner variety of Platonic love — for it takes a Dante to live the experience of " La Vita Nuova " and the imagination of 72 MINOR NOVELS "Paradiso" — the desire always falls short of satisfaction for a very different reason.
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In modern literature, the theory of ideal love — of love, namely, which is something more than a refinement of sexual desire — works out into two kinds of practice, directly opposed. In both, man is dominated by the desire for a transcendental perfection. Dante is the great instance of the one kind. With him the desire can only be aroused from its sleep in man's heart by vision of one who is not only a credible image of perfection, but who, for the man concerned, actually is the eternal perfect...ion temporally embodied. Once roused, therefore, the desire can never change its object without sinning against love ; but also, the desire can never be satisfied unless in the beatific vision ; since, though roused among temporal affairs, it is a desire for one eternal thing. But in the other and much commoner variety of Platonic love — for it takes a Dante to live the experience of " La Vita Nuova " and the imagination of 72 MINOR NOVELS "Paradiso" — the desire always falls short of satisfaction for a very different reason.
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