...mind. By the general consent of critics the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic...

...painting: "By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic...

...1810, 1816, 1818, 1819, 1825, 1826, 1840, 1847. 1854, 1854, 1858, 1864-5, 1868, 1878, 1886, 1888, 1905. "I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which,...the second, among the productions of the human mind (170). . . . The moral of other poems is incidental and consequent; in Milton's only it is essential...

...appearances, every disposition of mind takes hold on those by which it may be gratified. writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic...

...Yet if Johnson does Lyeidas scant justice, he has made amends by the high and true praise he gives to Paradise Lost : ' a poem which, considered with respect...to performance the second, among the productions of human kind.' The Lives of Dryden, Addison, and Pope, when every discount has been made, are masterly...

...Milton's character, opposed blank verse, and ridiculed Lycidas and the sonnets, commended the epic as "a poem which, considered with respect to design,...second, among the productions of the human mind." 2 Goldsmith, too, though he shared many of Johnson's prejudices, had a hand in the preparation of a...

...but such rather as proceed from a single sentiment. The Paradise Lost comes next to be examined : " A Poem, which, considered with respect to design,...the second among the productions of the human mind." Dr. Johnson's criticism on this immortal work extends through fifty pages. To give any adequate idea...

...declares that by the common consent of critics the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions. "Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...

...by Samuel Johnson in the Lives of the Poets (1779). Johnson joined the general chorus in praise of Paradise Lost, "a poem which, considered with respect...second, among the productions of the human mind." On the whole, however, his treatment of Milton is reactionary. Milton's politics Johnson loathed, and...

...materials for poetry!" As for Johnson's lives "did it escape Lord Byron what was said there in reference to Paradise Lost, a poem, which, considered, with respect...second, among the productions of the human mind." Whoever were the readers of his pamphlets, Bowles doubts whether Byron had read them himself, before...