 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 sivua
...appreciation of what we now consider the high-water mark of poetic excellence. Of Lycidas he writes : " In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind." Of Paradise Lost he writes at times very sympathetically : " Whatever be the faults of his diction,... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 536 sivua
...foul of Milton's Lycidas: "Its diction is harsh, its rhymes uncertain, its numbers unpleasing; .... in this poem there is no nature for there is no truth, there is no art for there is nothing new; .... it is easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting." In our own time Mark Pattison pronounces this same... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 sivua
..."rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel." Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth;...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a [50 pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted;... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1916 - 244 sivua
...on ' Lycidas,' viz., " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. ... In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new." 6. Explain the allusions in the following extracts : — (a) " Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing » Such... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 sivua
...passion runs not after remote allusions and — where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply... | |
 | 1916 - 402 sivua
...elaborate artificiality of form. He looks for pathos in "Lycidas" and he feels with Dr. Johnson that "in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ... he who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ". But he is wrong. The subject of " Lycidas " is not... | |
 | Herbert Henry Asquith - 1918 - 220 sivua
...contempt upon Lycidas : " The diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing. . . . Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . . Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 sivua
...satyrs ' and ' fauns with cloven heel.' Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Ilervey, that they studied logether, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1919 - 612 sivua
...rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. " ' In this poem there is no nature for there is no truth...pastoral : easy, vulgar and therefore disgusting.' " Do you call that criticism ? " " Ah, but listen," said another aud much agitated Shade, " to what... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 428 sivua
...and Collins ; the statements that in Lyeidas ' there is no nature, for there is no truth ', and that its form is that of ' a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ' ; and many such obiter dicta as ' the fabric of a sonnet, however adapted to the Italian language,... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there / is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability... 
