 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Liczba stron: 530
...name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented...wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry 3. If Wit be well described by Pope as being ' that which has 54 been often thought, but was never... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - Liczba stron: 424
...the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour;... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - Liczba stron: 346
...lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; . . . they neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." * His interpretation of the so-called Katharsis,the purgation of the passions through pity and fear,... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1964 - Liczba stron: 177
...and Tate offers us another excerpt from the Lives: Johnson declares "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." If these perverse bards refused to imitate nature or life, and declined to recognize the existence... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - Liczba stron: 655
...the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented...wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry. 52 If wit be well described by Pope, as being "that which has been often thought, but was never before... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - Liczba stron: 622
...name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated 20 any thing: they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented...wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry. 25 If wit be well described by Pope* as being 'that which has been often thought, but was never before... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - Liczba stron: 356
...the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated anything: they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect.72 In the Romantic period and after, Aristotle's ideas about poetry are subject to mutations... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - Liczba stron: 378
...the opposite of "natural" in the neoclassical sense of the universal. "They neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." 103 Their imagery or "wit" is well described by Johnson as discordia concors: "a combination of dissimilar... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - Liczba stron: 278
...procedures. He said that they "cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." Their thoughts were neither "natural" nor "just."26 Dr. Johnson found in the wit of the metapbysicals... | |
 | Peter G. Platt - 1999 - Liczba stron: 350
...the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing: they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect" (19). Johnson's judgment underscores the tenacity not only of Aristotle's mimetic approach to poetry... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature... 
