 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pàgines
...fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium * : — ' After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 pàgines
...this, it is surely superfluous to ansv the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a po otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, whi is poetry to be found ? To, circumscribe poetry by a definiti will only shew the narrowness of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pàgines
...lessen his poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing, a triumphant apotheosis. — "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let [us] enquire to whom the voice... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pàgines
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pàgines
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pàgines
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his exucl. e.nce, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogiuin : " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by n definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
