 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 стор.
...ready-made from one generation of poets to the next. As a result, he rejected metaphysical wit because "their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural;...and the reader, far from wondering that he missed theni, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found." And he objected... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - 366 стор.
...great wrong, lose their right to the name ot 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 ot intellect.7^' In the Romantic period and after, Aristotle's ideas about poetry are subject to mutations... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - 278 стор.
...classical ideas of poetic procedures. He said that they "cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted...represented the operations of intellect." Their thoughts were neither "natural" nor "just."26 Dr. Johnson found in the wit of the metapbysicals "a kind of discordia... | |
 | Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Peter Stockwell - 2000 - 308 стор.
...art", also thought that the shortcomings of the Metaphysicals pertained to both style and content: "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. "2 What was Donne hearing, that his poetry should have appeared to "That Done's Anniversarie was profane... | |
 | Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Peter Stockwell - 2000 - 308 стор.
...art", also thought that the shortcomings of the Metaphysicals pertained to both style and content: "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect."2 What was Donne hearing, that his poetry should have appeared to 1 "That Done's Anniversarie... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 стор.
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - 2006 - 236 стор.
...great wrong, lose their right to 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, not represented the operations of the mind' (8-9). Thus, the Metaphysicals are berated for not complying... | |
 | David Mikics - 2008 - 364 стор.
...negative. Anxious to display their learning, he writes, "they neither copied nature nor life. . . . Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they are not obvious, but neither are they just." For Johnson, the metaphysical poets' pursuit of the singular and the unusual proves deficient when... | |
 | 1920 - 490 стор.
...men, said Johnson, " were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour." " Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural;...and the reader, far from wondering that he missed ihem, wonders more frequently by what perseverance of industry they were ever found." With the latter... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1967 - 178 стор.
...deal upon the metaphysical poets, and Tate offers us another excerpt from the Lives: Johnson declares "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...matter nor represented the operations of intellect." If these perverse bards refused to imitate nature or life, and declined to recognize the existence... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, " 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 nor life; neither... 
