 It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Strona 369autor: Alexander Pope - 1822Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - Liczba stron: 280
...sustained paean to Homer, the "Preface to The Iliad" can illustrate the intensity ofthat veneration: It is to the strength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that unequal'd Fire and Rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - Liczba stron: 238
...to the Strength of this amazing Invention," Pope observed, that "we are to attribute that unequal'd Fire and Rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that...Poetical Spirit is Master of himself while he reads him."7"1 Modern textual criticism has confirmed what eighteenth-century scholars already knew, that... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2003 - Liczba stron: 276
...poets as they have built upon the foundations of Homer." Alexander Pope contended regarding Homer: "No man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. . . . Be Homer's words your study and delight. / Read them by day and meditate by night. / Thence your... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - Liczba stron: 508
...INTRODUCTION pieces, affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton; so that no man of a true poetical spirit, is master of himself while he reads them', is soon followed by a rhetorical question: 'Surely it is no narrow, nor invidious, nor niggardly... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2006 - Liczba stron: 262
...inventio, the discovery of material), for he saw nature with such clarity and reported it with such force that 'no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is Master of himself while he reads him'.36 Homer indeed saw the animation of the material world ('An Arrow is impatient to be on the Wing,... | |
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