Literary notes about Commentary (AI summary)
In literature, the word "commentary" takes on diverse forms, ranging from explanatory notes that elucidate a text’s deeper meanings to added scholarly or even editorial insights. It can be an extensive analysis accompanying a work, as seen when philosophical ideas are unraveled through an interpretative lens [1, 2] or when religious doctrines are clarified [3, 4]. At times, commentary serves as a succinct remark that shapes dialogue by framing events or sentiments [5, 6, 7], while in more technical contexts it provides detailed explanations or instructions, such as in anatomical treatises [8, 9]. This multiplicity of uses underscores commentary’s role as a bridge between the written work and its broad interpretative landscape.
- that all our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary of an unknown text, one which is perhaps unknowable but yet felt?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - In his great Commentary on Aristotle he gives and explains every sentence of that philosopher’s works.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri - The First Issue for 1871 comprises — Delitzsch's Commentary on the Psalms.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - —In his Commentary on the Epistle of St. James.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - Cambronne replied, “——.” {EDITOR’S COMMENTARY:
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - “The old-woman business is about played out, Brown,” he added, by way of commentary; “why don't you say you want to buck ag'in' faro?
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - “You have said enough, Major Heyward,” exclaimed the angry old man; “enough to make a volume of commentary on French civility.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - Surgical Anatomy SURGICAL ANATOMY by JOSEPH MACLISE COMMENTARY ON PLATES 20 & 21.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - Surgical Anatomy COMMENTARY ON PLATES 9 & 10.
— from The King James Version of the Bible
