 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this it is surely superfluous to answer...return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?"—Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). " Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 pages
...studiously designed, to be a protest against both. Thus, in the ' Life of Pope,' he exultingly asks, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and in dealing with poets, notably Milton, Parnell, Collins, Dyer, and Gray, into whose work the... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...reads tfiem.'1* To such contemporary attempts to derogate Pope, Johnson countered with the question, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?'" By 18z5, however, the editor of the Oxford edition of Johnson's H'orfe, though otherwise sympathetic... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...changing taste; but Johnson had no sympathy with a point of view such as that expressed by Joseph Warton. "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" The remark comes at the end of Johnson's analysis of the poetry, and the reader is thus referred to... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 pages
...Johnson solved resoundingly at the conclusion of his "Life." "After all this," he assured his audience, "it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Shown here is Johnson's comparison of Pope with Dryden, remarkable for the justice with which he discriminates... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...poetry in any limiting way, he does say that Pope will take us as far in that direction as we can go: "if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Johnson did not believe, as we do, that a major poetic shift was taking place during his generation... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...style - the metaphysical. While never actually offering the section on the metaphysicals as a manifesto ("To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer" ["Life of Pope," in, 151]), it makes a powerful statement of principles and exemplifies Johnson's criticism... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...bosom returns an echo. ('Gray') New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ... If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? There are some hostile points of view and some odd judgements. But these are balanced with influential... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...versification — "Art and diligence have now done their best" — and left a model of poetry for the ages: "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" (3: 251). And progress continues, if not with Gray, then with the improved and unprejudiced common... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 pages
...otherwise admired, when he took on the polemicists for pure poetry at the end of his "Life of Pope": "To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made."'" From the point of view of the history of canonmaking, however, Warton 's scheme is of considerable... | |
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After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? 
