 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 стор.
...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 стор.
...changing taste; but Johnson had no sympathy with a point of view such as that expressed by Joseph Warton. "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...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 стор.
...Johnson solved resoundingly at the conclusion of his "Life." "After all this," he assured his audience, "it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 стор.
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this it is surely superfluous to answer...otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poetry, where is poetry to be found? The commentary here amounts to a rousing defense of Pope's reputation... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - 2001 - 378 стор.
...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 стор.
...aberrant in the original volume. An answer is usually sought in Johnson's conclusion to the 'Life of Pope': After all this it is surely superfluous to...found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 стор.
...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... 
