Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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Of the ideas suggested by these awful scenes, from some we recedewith reverence, except when stated hours require their association;and from others we shrink with horror, or admit them only assalutary inflictions, as counterpoises to our interests andpassions. Such images rather obstruct the career of fancy thanincite it.
Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry; butpoetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at leastconceive, and poetical terrors such as human s...trength and fortitudemay combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for thewings of wit; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness, content with calm belief and humble adoration.
Known truths, however, may take a different appearance, and beconveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images. ThisMilton has undertaken and performed with pregnancy and vigour ofmind peculiar to himself. Whoever considers the few radicalpositions which the Scriptures afforded him, will wonder by whatenergetic operation he expanded them to such extent, and ramifiedthem to so much variety, restrained as he was by religious reverencefrom licentiousness of fiction.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Of the ideas suggested by these awful scenes, from some we recedewith reverence, except when stated hours require their association;and from others we shrink with horror, or admit them only assalutary inflictions, as counterpoises to our interests andpassions. Such images rather obstruct the career of fancy thanincite it.
Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry; butpoetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at leastconceive, and poetical terrors such as human s...trength and fortitudemay combat. The good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for thewings of wit; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness, content with calm belief and humble adoration.
Known truths, however, may take a different appearance, and beconveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images. ThisMilton has undertaken and performed with pregnancy and vigour ofmind peculiar to himself. Whoever considers the few radicalpositions which the Scriptures afforded him, will wonder by whatenergetic operation he expanded them to such extent, and ramifiedthem to so much variety, restrained as he was by religious reverencefrom licentiousness of fiction.
What to read after Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Samuel Johnson to read onlineMoreLess
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