...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...

...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 not the individual, bat the species; to remark general properties and large appearances; he does not number the streaks...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...feels the want of that minute accuracy which in Rasselas he had treated as unnecessary for the poet : ' The business of a poet,' said Imlac, ' is to examine...the different shades in the verdure of the forest.' But in the Journey the explorer wishes he could remember things more clearly. ' He who has not made...

...walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." " This business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine,...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking...

...famous summary of pseudo-classic theory of style is in Rasselas, chapter x: "The business of the poet is to examine, not the individual but the species;...the different shades in the verdure of the forest." 6. The chief influence of Johnson, however, has been felt rather through his conversation, as reported...

...famous summary of pseudo-classic theory of style is in Rasselas, chapter x: "The business of the poet is to examine, not the individual but the species;...the different shades in the verdure of the forest." 6. The chief influence of Johnson, however, has been felt rather through his conversation, as reported...

...seine abweisung des koexistierenden , der maierei in der dichtung , wenn er von dem dichter verlangt, "general properties and large appearances. He does...the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shapes in the verdure of the forest." Überhaupt würde eine Untersuchung über Johnson und Lessing...