...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...? 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...

...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet f - asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,...

...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...

...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?" The remark comes at the end of Johnson's analysis of the poetry, and the reader is thus referred to...

..."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?" Shown here is Johnson's comparison of Pope with Dryden, remarkable for the justice with which he discriminates...

...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...

...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? . . . Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice...

...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...

...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...

...pure poetry at the end of his "Life of Pope": "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 made."'" From the point of view of the history of canonmaking, however, Warton 's scheme is of considerable...