 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - 300 σελίδες
...concors. Indeed Gibbon conspicuously alludes to Samuel Johnson's critique of metaphysical poetry, that "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions." 24 For Gibbon, theology and its propensity for frolicking in the multiple connotations of the material... | |
 | José Garcez Ghirardi - 2000 - 154 σελίδες
...kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or a discovery ofoccult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined,...enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by tiolence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions; their... | |
 | Nigel Griffin - 2001 - 262 σελίδες
...in things apparendy unlike' continues thus: 'Of wit, thus defined, they [the English Metaphysicals ] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subdety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes... | |
 | David Edwards - 2001 - 406 σελίδες
...neither are they just.' In particular he objected to the frequency of a 'conceit', which he defined. 'The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader, . . . though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased' - because... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...experience, that is the hinge of Johnson's account of Donne. When Johnson remarks that in Donne's poetry "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions" (para. 56), he is, presumably, thinking of the idiom of such quintessential poems as "The Extasie,"... | |
 | John Hines - 2004 - 230 σελίδες
...Johnson's famous characterization of the wit of what he called this school of 'metaphysical' poets: The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions . . .9 Dr Johnson's criticism is exaggerated and parodic. He could well have had in mind Donne's image... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - 2006 - 236 σελίδες
...kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they have more than enough. (9) It is fascinating to see how Johnson touches with such inadvertent penetration all the keys that... | |
 | David Mikics - 2008 - 364 σελίδες
...the metaphysicals' "combinations of confused magnificence." Johnson concludes that, in this poetry, "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes... | |
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... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations,... 
