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" To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery,... "
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... - 21 ページ
Samuel Johnson 著 - 1854 - 395 ページ
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A Critical History of English Literature: from the beginnings to the ..., 第 1 巻

David Daiches - 1979 - 268 ページ
...sonneteers it can be said, as Johnson said of the "metaphysical" poets of the seventeenth century, that "to write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think." Indeed, the "conceit" of the Petrarchan sonneteer is not basically different from that of the metaphysical...

Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays

F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 ページ
...erudite obscurity, metaphorical extravagance and cerebral corrugation. But, as Doctor Johnson conceded, 'to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think' (the italics are mine). In the tradition established by Donne it was assumed that a poet should be...

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

Roger Fowler - 1987 - 276 ページ
...textual work. Not the least of its values lies in the learning and wit of its principal practitioners. 'To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.' Sce also D1SCOURSE, PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYS1S. For a concise account sce DC Wood, 'An 1ntroduction...

The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773

Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 ページ
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often...plan it was at least necessary to read and think." The ingenuity which might distract from an affecting poetical experience could nevertheless provide...

The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 ページ
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often...at least necessary to read and think. No man could he horn a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, hy descriptions copied from descriptions,...

Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech

Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 ページ
...And though Johnson's admiration for the metaphysicals is severely qualified, he does conclude that "to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think."'2 When John Donne compares two lovers to "stiff twin compasses"— to cite the standard example—...

The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 ページ
...great abilities, its capacity to stimulate the reader to "recollection or inquiry," and its originality ("to write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and to think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet" [I, 11). That is, Johnson identifies Donne as having...

John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit

David Edwards - 2001 - 406 ページ
...Dr Johnson, 'was their whole endeavour.' He was not entirely hostile to these 'metaphysical' poets: 'to write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think'. But his verdict was that they 'fail to give delight by their desire of exciting admiration'. He complained...

Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 ページ
...his capacity to stimulate the reader to "recollection or inquiry" (para. 61), and his originality for "to write on their plan it was at least necessary...a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions" (para. 6o). Indeed, Donne is felt as having risen above the mediocre and merely traditional qualities...

The Writer's Voice

Alfred Alvarez - 2005 - 136 ページ
...argument without having them explained. Even Dr. Johnson, who disliked the Metaphysicals, had admitted, "To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think." Eliot rephrased that in twentieth-century terms: "A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified...




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