 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. " Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | 1925 - 610 pages
...these writers will without great wrong lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing: they neither copied nature...nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect. Tht/se however who deny them to be poets allow them to be... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...nature," or really "unnatural," the opposite of "natural" in the neoclassical sense of the universal. "They neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." 103 Their imagery or "wit" is well described by Johnson as... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1964 - 177 pages
...deal upon the metaphysical poets, and Tate offers us another excerpt from the Lives: Johnson declares "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." If these perverse bards refused to imitate nature or life,... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - 278 pages
...classical ideas of poetic procedures. He said that they "cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." Their thoughts were neither "natural" nor "just."26 Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pages
..."These writers will without great wrong lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing: they neither copied nature...nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of the intellect" (p. 19). TS Eliot, "The Metaphysical Poets," in Selected... | |
 | Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Peter Stockwell - 2000 - 308 pages
...art", also thought that the shortcomings of the Metaphysicals pertained to both style and content: "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect."2 What was Donne hearing, that his poetry should have appeared... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 pages
...these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature...nor life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together;... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - 2006 - 236 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything: they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, not represented the operations of the mind' (8-9). Thus, the Metaphysicals are berated for not complying... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 pages
...man in IA Richards Philosophy of Rhetoric (New York, 1936), S. 120 — 3. 103. Lives, i (Cowley), 19: They neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect.« 104. ebenda, S. 20: »a combination of dissimilar images,... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither... 
