 | 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... | |
 | John P. Hardy - 1979 - 228 pages
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 | Donald Davie - 1979 - 228 pages
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 | John L. Mahoney - 1980 - 792 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Alastair Fowler - 1982 - 374 pages
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 | David Bromwich - 1983 - 480 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1984 - 882 pages
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 | Isobel Grundy - 1984 - 216 pages
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 | 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... | |
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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? 
