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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay - Page 186
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Anniversary Papers by Colleagues and Pupils of George Lyman Kittredge ...

1913 - 490 pages
...language of poetry vague, trite, and conventional. " The business of a poet," Johnson tells us, "... is to examine, not the individual, but the species...the different shades in the verdure of the forest." 1 If the descriptive poetry of the time had not been devoted so exclusively to "general properties...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ...

Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...1756-1782. Not the individual but the species. Not the streaks of the tulip. The business of a poet ... is to examine, not the individual but the species...forest ; he is to exhibit in his portraits of nature, Prominent such prominent and striking features, as recall the original f"a'luSra^"1E to every mind...
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Addresses of U.M. Rose

Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 pages
...grandeur of the outline of the surrounding hills. "The business of the poet," said Imlac in Rasselas, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species;...appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, nor describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest." No; he deals not with minute details...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ...

Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...species ; to remark general properties Not the and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the forest ; he is to exhibit in his portraits of nature, Prominent such prominent and striking features, as recall the original futures"""8 to every mind ;...
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Dr. Samuel Johnsons Stellung zu den literarischen Fragen seiner Zeit

Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...wahren,173) und hat seiner Ansicht im Rasselas m) bekannten Ausdruck gegeben: The business of a poet — is to examine not the individual, but the species;...in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in Ms portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind and...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: Edited with Notes for Schools

Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 180 pages
...cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before, or never heeded." "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine,'...properties and large appearances : he does not number the__ ftt.reaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is...
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English Lyric in the Age of Reason

Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pages
...a universal appeal ; and the age followed Pope. "This business of a poet," says Imlac, in Rasselas, "is to examine not the individual but the species...streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades of the verdure of the forest. . . . He must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable...
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The Influence of Milton on English Poetry, Volume 1

Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 pages
...silent shower, Precipitated still, no breeze disturbs, While fine as dust it falls.1 This tendency to "number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest," which, according to Dr. Johnson and other classicists, is not " the business of a poet," * also distinguishes...
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Doctor Johnson: A Study in Eighteenth Century Humanism

Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...humanistic conception of art were fundamental in his own literary creed. "The business of the poet," says Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the...the different shades in the verdure of the forest." And the following, also quoted, from Rambler 36: "Poetry cannot dwell upon the minuter distinctions,...
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Collected Essays of W. P. Ker

William Paton Ker - 1925 - 366 pages
...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...
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