 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 sayfa
...to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a. poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 sayfa
...reads tfiem.'1* To such contemporary attempts to derogate Pope, Johnson countered with the question, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?'" By 18z5, however, the editor of the Oxford edition of Johnson's H'orfe, though otherwise sympathetic... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sayfa
...to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" The remark comes at the end of Johnson's analysis of the poetry, and the reader is thus referred to... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 sayfa
...to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Shown here is Johnson's comparison of Pope with Dryden, remarkable for the justice with which he discriminates... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 sayfa
...poetry in any limiting way, he does say that Pope will take us as far in that direction as we can go: "if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Johnson did not believe, as we do, that a major poetic shift was taking place during his generation... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 sayfa
...bosom returns an echo. ('Gray') New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ... If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? There are some hostile points of view and some odd judgements. But these are balanced with influential... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 sayfa
...versification — "Art and diligence have now done their best" — and left a model of poetry for the ages: "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" (3: 251). And progress continues, if not with Gray, then with the improved and unprejudiced common... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - 2001 - 378 sayfa
...disqualify his writing from being thought of as 'poetry'. Johnson was famously dismissive of the calumny ('If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?'), but still expressed opposition to Warton in terms making clear his acceptance, to some extent, of the... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 sayfa
...to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return. If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 sayfa
...agree (albeit reluctantly) with Warton's fundamental assumptions. His response to Warton's challenge - "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" - seems to place Pope outside any narrative of post-Miltonic poetic decay: "Let us look round upon... | |
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After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? 
