...invention as, by producing something unex. pected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion aro few, and being few are universally known ; but few...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic...

...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic...

...poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." Such an unworthy definition of poetry might answer for an age of lampooners, when merry quips and fantastic...

...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : " The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression." The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both...

...yet certainly have yielded the fullest contentment to the Inquisition. Johnson says : ' The topicks of devotion are few, and being few, are universally...sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.' The stage is a magician, with strange and singular gifts and powers, who exacts rigidly his dues both...

...Johnson, following Pope, declares that "the essence of poetry is invention," and goes on to say that " poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." Wordsworth maintained that " poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling;" while Coleridge,...

...find expression in a hymn.' 1 Dr. Johnson declared that sacred poetry must always be poor because ' the topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are can be made no more.' To this criticism Keble replied in his essay on Sacred Poetry — How can the...

...pleasure than language not so arranged, and that, as Johnson says, a metrical composition pleases us ' by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford.' If it is true that there can be poetry without metre, alliteration or rime, just as there are pictures...

...pleasure than language not so arranged, and that, as Johnson says, a metrical composition pleases us ' by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford.1 If it is true that there can be poetry withoot metre, alliteration or rime, just as there...

...organism. The writer puts Into it a portion of his own spiritual vitality, so that, as Dr. Johnson says, "poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." The analysis or separating the structure into parts, is prosodical criticism; examining why the presentation...