 | 1900 - 674 pages
...quotations from Johnson's writings. Imlac in narrating his life describes his attempts to become a poet. " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minute discriminations which one may have... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...attempts to become a poet. " The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine not the individual, bat the species; to remark general properties and large...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minute discriminations which one may have... | |
 | 1902 - 414 pages
...manners ; not an individual but a species." Thus a novelist should be like Imlac's poet, who is not to " number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," but to " mark general properties and large appearances." How consistently he worked on the lines thus... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Europe - 1902 - 412 pages
...manners ; not an individual but a species." Thus a novelist should be like Imlac's poet, who is not to " number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," but to " mark general properties and large appearances." How consistently he worked on the lines thus... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Europe - 1902 - 408 pages
...manners ; not an individual but a species." Thus a novelist should be like Imlac's poet, who is not to " number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," but to " mark general properties and large appearances." How consistently he worked on the lines thus... | |
 | Armine Thomas Kent - English literature - 1905 - 306 pages
...is a theory propounded in Rasselas to the effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does...different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...a theory propounded in " Rasselas" to the effect that the business of the poet is to remark only " general properties and large appearances. He does...different shades in the verdure of the forest." He must " neglect the minuter discriminations for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - English literature - 1907 - 588 pages
...minutest objects. When Johnson observed, or rather makes Imlac in his Rasselas observe, that "the poet does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe...different shades in the verdure of the forest," he does not seem to be aware that this was just what his contemporaries were beginning to do. Tennyson... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1908 - 476 pages
...favor of the specific. Dr. Johnson, however, has recorded in Rasselas a somewhat different opinion: "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine,...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
 | English poetry - 1908 - 464 pages
...favor of the specific. Dr. Johnson, however, has recorded in Rasselas a somewhat different opinion: "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine,...of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind, and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have... | |
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The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. 
