 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 страници
...received harsher criticism than that upon Lycidas. He denies to this poem either nature or truth or art, for there is • nothing new. " Its form is that...exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces i. Lives, III,317. 2. 7W</. llI, 356. 3. Jbid. II, 410. JOHNSON AND NEO-CLASSICISM I33 dissatisfaction... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1926 - 474 страници
...passage in Johnson's Life of Milton is perhaps not seldom misunderstood : ' In this poem (Lycidas) there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there...pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting.' dismission : PP 114. distance : E 274 ' We are rather out of distance of the very striking beauties... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 страници
...foul of Milton's Lycidas: "Its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing; . . . . in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new; .... it is easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." In our own time Mark Pattison pronounces this same... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...neglect bf the dramatic unities, we applaud him, but the same method also led him to write of "Lycidas": "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Johnson's insistence on both naturalness and novelty could make him grossly insensitive to certain... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 страници
...Nature de I'Eglogue (1688). 18. "In this poem [Lycidas ] there is no nature, for there is no truth ... Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind" (Johnson, Life of Milton). 1 9. Quoted from the version in Stephen Duck's Poems on Several Occasions... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 страници
...uncase with the classical forms of Renaissance poetry which now seemed inconsistent with 'sincerity': 'in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth'. Its mythological imagery, 'such as a college easily supplies', is, in Johnson's view, inconsistent... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...rough satyrs And fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...;-' for there is nothing new. Its form is that of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and '2 therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago IT... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...failure of imagination and of art. This perception is similar to his statement that in Milton's "Lycidas" "there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new" ("Life of Milton," 1, 163) where Johnson's complaint is not mainly about the poem's pastoral form or... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - 2001 - 360 страници
...Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England. 9. Samuel Johnson's well-known remark on Lycidas — "its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting" (94) — is typical of a centuries-long English critical vendetta against the pastoraL 1o. A fine example... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 страници
...the poems is of an artistic failure, and in this Johnson echoes his observation on "Lycidas" that: "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new."4:1 But Johnson also comments on an experiential problem he sees in the metaphysicals, who "wrote... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability... 
