 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 halaman
...province of poetry is to describe nature and ofpoetiy' passion. S. JOHNSON, Rasselas, 1759. invention. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (Waller), 1779-1781. Selection. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 halaman
...intellectual world, und spricht es später in seinen Lives bestimmter aus: The essence of poetry, sagt er,63) is invention, such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The highest praise of genius is original invention.61) Genius is shown only by invention.65) Definitionen... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1921 - 216 halaman
...boundaries of knowledge by discovering and conquering new regions of the intellectual world". To him "the essence of Poetry is invention; such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights". It is in this light we have to view Young's treatise On Original Composition (1759) 1), which is not... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 430 halaman
...imaginings, and then into the more familiar world of the poet's words. CHAPTER IH THE POET'S IMAGINATION "The essence of poetry is invention; such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights." SAMUEL JOHNSON "The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets." WALT WHITMAN WE must not at the outset... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 halaman
...WARTON. See CHOKER'S note to BOSWELL'S Johnson. Sept. 18, 1777. Also in MRS. PIOZZI'S Anecdotes. 8 AMB — A Chapter on Ears. 15 A velvet flute-note...pleasantly, Upon the bosom of that harmony, And saile SAMUEL JOHNSON — The Lives of the English Poets. Life of Waller. 9 Still may syllables jar with time,... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 halaman
...human genius to dignify. God spake the word, and they were made. In the Life of Waller he declares that the essence of poetry is invention, "such invention...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; . . . they can receive no grace from... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 halaman
...reasoning. He argues the point, first, from the nature of poetry, and afterwards from that of devotion. The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention...surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few. It is to be hoped that many men's experience will refute the latter part of this statement. How can... | |
 | Clement Wood - 1926 - 204 halaman
...Crane, are not poetry, and yet they precisely satisfy Arnold's dictum. Samuel Johnson is no nearer: The essence of poetry is invention: such invention...producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. Many a good detective or adventure story does as much. Coleridge is further astray, when he writes:... | |
 | 1866 - 956 halaman
...¡words are indeed suggestive of a truth which they fail exactly to express. " The essence," he saye, " of poetry is invention, such invention as, by producing...surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few." It is perfectly true, as Mr. Keble suggests, that though the object of devotion is one, the topics... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 halaman
...Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in, a higher state than poetry can confer. ji The essence of poetry is invention ; such. invention...something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topicks of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be... | |
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Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. The essence of poetry... 
