| 1922 - Liczba stron: 636
...explanation, but his analysis of the phenomena is still helpful. The true matter of poetry, he says, is that "which is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just." It is here that the poet always exercises one of the greatest functions of his genius, in preserving... | |
| Wilhelm Viëtor - 1905 - Liczba stron: 712
...words italicised in the above passage. Make a general analysis of the following sentence: If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered...this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. 4. Explain fully with illustrations the meaning of four of the following terms: 5. Point out the faults... | |
| D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - Liczba stron: 254
...most great writers we can accept without difficulty. They are, to adapt a phrase of Johnson's, that which ' is at once natural and new, that which, though...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just'. But Hardy's poetry contains eccentricities of language of a sort we are not always ready to accept... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - Liczba stron: 346
...thought to happiness of language. [B]ya more noble and more adequate conception, that wit defined. [may] be considered as wit which is at once natural and...upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ... that which he that never found it, wonders how he missed. . . . a kind of discordia concors; a... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - Liczba stron: 420
...definition' expressed as a union of extremes. Wit, he says, is that 'which is at once natural and new,' and 'though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just. . .'" (Johnson's doctrine might be paraphrased in this way: the best thoughts in poetry are so proportionable... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - Liczba stron: 336
...definition of true wit as "what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed," and added: "If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered...this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen." Here his definition is used as a means of criticizing adversely the metaphysical poets, but it is none... | |
| Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - Liczba stron: 622
...natural dignity, and 30 reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered...it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the 35 metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they are... | |
| Roger D. Sell, Peter Verdonk - 1994 - Liczba stron: 278
...philosophizing, should have argued that the kind of true wit to which the metaphysicals seldom rose is 'that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; ... that which he that never found it wonders how he missed' (Johnson [1779-81] 1925: II). We acknowledge... | |
| Greg Clingham - 1997 - Liczba stron: 290
...that support that general experience of reading, and inform his formulation about wit: "If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered...this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen" (Lives, I, 19-10). This line of thought began with a historical observation as part of a historical... | |
| 1998 - Liczba stron: 262
...función descriptiva de la lengua. Según Johnson, refleja una percepción correcta de la realidad: "that which is at once natural and new, that which though...upon its first production acknowledged to be just..." Es una reacción al lenguaje y al discurso de los grandes poetas de los siglos XVI y XVII antes de... | |
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