 Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.  Calcutta Review - Page 11857Full view - About this book
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...TRADITION Introduction: ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES BOSWELL. Then, Sir, what is poetry?' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all tyow what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.' It is the mark of an educated man to look... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 pages
...One theory MH Abrams Orientation of Critical Theories BOSWELL. 'Then, Sir, what is poetry?' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.' It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...Johnson, point blank, "What is poetry?" Johnson's structuralist, even poststructuralist, reply—"Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all...what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is"—is the view of someone who has read a great many books, reflected on their differences, and concluded... | |
 | James Raffan, Bert Horwood - 1988 - 230 pages
...Mr. Boswell asked Dr. Johnson, the great English lexicographer, "What is poetry?" Johnson replied: "Why, sir, it is much easier to say what it is not." I find it particularly auspicious that, according to Roberts and Shackleton in their book The Canoe,... | |
 | Mae-Wan Ho, Fritz Albert Popp, Ulrich Warnke - 1994 - 480 pages
...microscopy. Biophys. J., 58, 1990: 1-12. Chapter 11 On the Biological Nature of Biophotons Wei-Ping Mei We all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is. — Samuel Johnson, from Vol.3 of Boswell's Life — 11.1 Introduction Longman's dictionary37 defines... | |
 | 2003 - 1468 pages
...the blind side 246 Light And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. — BIBLE: GENESIS We all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is. — SAMUEL JOHNSON NOUNS I light, luminance or luminosity, luminousness; lu265 244 Visibility — 246... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 244 pages
...by means of its negation. And when Dr. Johnson was asked by Boswell, "What is poetry?" he replied, "Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is [except by contrasting it with dark]."102 If human beings were in a state of having sensations all... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...James Boswell Life of Samuel ¡ohnson (1791! II April 177(1 19 BoswKi.i.: Sir, what is poetry? JOHNSON: Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to if// what it is. James Boswell Life of Samuel ¡ohnson (1791) 12 April 1776 20 Every man of any education... | |
 | Nikki Moustaki - 2001 - 376 pages
...True poetry makes things happen. — Robert Graves When asked what poetry is, poet Ben Jonson replied, "It is much easier to say what it is not. We all know...light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is." To begin any art you have to know what the product is. A painter must learn what a painting is and... | |
 | W. M. Steen - 2003 - 428 pages
...emission is not a new phenomenon." 2 Basic Laser Optics Boswell: Then, Sir, what is poetry? Johnson: Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is Boswell's Life of Johnson Open the second shutter so that more light can come in Attributed as the... | |
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