 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1989 - 452 страници
...Samuel Johnson, however, continued to insist that "the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing," and that "it is always a writer's duty to make the world better" (Preface to Shakespeare). In the nineteenth century the influential reviewer Francis Jeffrey deliberately... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 страници
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the defects of this writer,26 I have not yet... | |
 | Patrick Deane - 1994 - 270 страници
...present and his immediate future. ("A Commentary" [1927] It was the neoclassical Samuel Johnson who wrote that "it is always a writer's duty to make the world better" ("Preface" 66), and in his own less pragmatic way, Eliot seems to have come to hold a similar belief.... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 страници
...and early eighteenth centuries, that a poet must represent a just universe. Johnson states explicitly that "it is always a writer's duty to make the world...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place" (p. 71). Although he avoids using the term, in his emphasis on "a just distribution of good... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 страници
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 страници
...no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place' (Yale, v1I, 71). To weigh Shakespeare's merits against 'the state of the age in which... | |
 | Paul Cavill, Heather Ward - 2007 - 515 страници
...QUESTIONS 1. Do you find Johnson's assurance enjoyable? Why or why not? 2. Do you agree with Johnson that 'it is always a writer's duty to make the world better'? How would you define a writer's duty today? 1. A theme of King Lear, cf. JohnF. Danby, Shakespeare's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 страници
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration may improve them,... | |
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... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age... 
