I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind. Lives - Página 82editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 páginas
...conclusion, for Johnson's commentary on the poem begins with the extraordinary claim that Paradise Lost, "considered with respect to design, may claim the...the second, among the productions of the human mind" (170). Some critics, trying to reconcile these apparently conflicting views, have been led to argue... | |
| Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 páginas
...it." Similarly, Johnson's gestures at ranking works according to artistic excellence - Paradise Lost, "considered with respect to design, may claim the...place, and with respect to performance the second" could seem both unequivocal and perfunctory, as if they were merely rhetorical and not actually positing... | |
| Robert DeMaria, Jr. - 2001 - 976 páginas
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| Alexander S. Gourlay - 2002 - 440 páginas
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| John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 páginas
...Milton's scholarship "places him in the first rank of writers and criticks." Most tellingly, Johnson calls Paradise Lost "a poem which, considered with respect...performance the second, among the productions of the human mind."26 As Paul Fussell observes,"This is a remarkable flux of enthusiasm from Johnson, a man who... | |
| Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 páginas
...acrimonious republican with a Turkish contempt for females, and yet he said that "Paradise Lost [is] a poem which, considered with respect to design, may...the second, among the productions of the human mind" ("Milton" 1.170). (As is usual, priority is assigned to the Iliad.) Johnson therefore concludes his... | |
| Milind S. Malshe - 2003 - 210 páginas
...'Life of Milton', Dr. Johnson says: "... the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions ... "; further, Milton's Lycidas is severely criticised because "It's form is that of a pastoral, easy,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 480 páginas
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| Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 612 páginas
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| S. Austin Allibone - 2006 - 576 páginas
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