| Susan Manly - 2007 - 222 halaman
...ideas', but associates the sublime with the absence of sensible image, suggesting that poetry should 'affect rather by sympathy than imitation; to display...rather the effect of things on the mind of the speaker ... than to present a clear idea of the things themselves'. Again, when Wordsworth goes on to associate... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 halaman
...poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does ; their business is, to affect rather by sympathy than imitation ; to display...province, and that in which they succeed the best. SECTION VI. POETRY NOT STRICTLY AN IMITATIVE AKT. HENCE we may observe that poetry, taken in its most... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 halaman
...does ; their business is, to affect rather by sympathy than imitation ; to display rather the efleet of things on the mind of the speaker, or of others,...province, and that in which they succeed the best. SECTION VI. PORTRT NOT STRICTLY AN IMITATIVE AET. HENCE we may observe that poetry, taken in its most... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 halaman
...evoke than their other properties of sound and association. The business of poetry and rhetoric is 'to affect rather by sympathy than imitation ; to...to present a clear idea of the things themselves.' The germ of Laocoon is contained in these paragraphs. A Vindication is a much more characteristic and... | |
| René Wellek - 1978 - 768 halaman
...»Poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does; their business is, to affect rather by sympathy than imitation; to display...mind of the speaker, or of others, than to present a clair idea of the things themselves.« 11. Essays on Poetry and Music (3. Aufl. London, 1779), S. 181—191.... | |
| Wallace Jackson - 1973 - 138 halaman
...reflection depends clearly anticipates Burke's popular dictum that the business of poetry and rhetoric is "to display rather the effect of things on the mind...to present a clear idea of the things themselves." 26 In the years preceding mid-century, the most important attempt to draw upon this principle is Charles... | |
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