 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs And fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...;-' for there is nothing new. Its form is that of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and '2 therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago IT... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...failure of imagination and of art. This perception is similar to his statement that in Milton's "Lycidas" "there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new" ("Life of Milton," 1, 163) where Johnson's complaint is not mainly about the poem's pastoral form or... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - 2001 - 360 pages
...Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England. 9. Samuel Johnson's well-known remark on Lycidas — "its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting" (94) — is typical of a centuries-long English critical vendetta against the pastoraL 1o. A fine example... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...the poems is of an artistic failure, and in this Johnson echoes his observation on "Lycidas" that: "In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new."4:1 But Johnson also comments on an experiential problem he sees in the metaphysicals, who "wrote... | |
 | Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 pages
..."Lycidas." Although Johnson finds "Lycidas" particularly offensive, he also attacks the genre itself: "its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting" The last word is explained by the Norton editors in the notes as meaning "displeasing, because its... | |
 | Martin Aske - 2005 - 212 pages
...opinion on this theme, Samuel Johnson's more famous critique of Milton's poem is perhaps exemplary : In this poem there is no nature for there is no truth;...improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind .... Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune... | |
 | Marlé Hammond, Dana Sajdi - 2008 - 440 pages
...of Milton, says the problem with Lycidas is the pastoral mode: "For in this poem there is no nature, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral,...whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted . . . ."4 Clearly, though, stylization can serve to focus a powerful emotional statement. An emotion... | |
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In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth : there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral : easy, vulgar, and, therefore, disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability... 
