 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...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 of mankind has decreed...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | 1927 - 658 pages
...poet, where is poetry to be found? Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. A thousand years may elapse before there... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pages
...historical perspective to his argument. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed...let their productions be examined and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - 556 pages
...Johnson encapsulated for his age, "Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed...let their productions be examined and their claims stated, and . . . Pope will be no more disputed."26 Women poets early recognized the standard he set... | |
 | 1928 - 748 pages
...of Pope will be no more disputed." The poets of a hundred and fifty years must be added to those " to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry," since Johnson wrote these lines on Pope. A hundred and fifty years, moreover, which contain in quantity,... | |
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To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us... 
