tailieunhanh - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 8: Samuel johnshon

Often referred to as was an English writer who made lasting contributions to Eng literature as a poet,essayist,moralist,literary critic,biographer,editor and lexicographer. He was an Anglican and a Tory. He was born in Lichfied. Attended Pembroke College Oxford. He was the first one to compile a dictionary in 1755. | SAMUEL JOHNSHON Often referred to as was an English writer who made lasting contributions to Eng literature as a poet,essayist,moralist,literary critic,biographer,editor and lexicographer. He was an Anglican and a Tory. He was born in Lichfied. Attended Pembroke College Oxford. He was the first one to compile a dictionary in 1755. FROM MILTON Milton is one of the poets on whom much praise is bestowed his one such poem is “Lycidas” Summary of the poem Lycidas. CRITICISM ON LYCIDUS Diction is hard,rhymes uncertain and numbers unpleasing. Beauty if any is in the images and sentiments. LACK OF PASSION There is no passion in “Lycidas: passion runs away from “allusions” and “obscure opinions” Passion plucks no berries “myrtle” and “ivy” nor calls upon “Arethuse” and Mincius nor tells of rough”satyrs” and “farns with cloven heel” Where there is leisure for fiction there is a little grief. UNORIGINAL There is no nature. No truth,no art. Because there is nothing new. Unimaginative. | SAMUEL JOHNSHON Often referred to as was an English writer who made lasting contributions to Eng literature as a poet,essayist,moralist,literary critic,biographer,editor and lexicographer. He was an Anglican and a Tory. He was born in Lichfied. Attended Pembroke College Oxford. He was the first one to compile a dictionary in 1755. FROM MILTON Milton is one of the poets on whom much praise is bestowed his one such poem is “Lycidas” Summary of the poem Lycidas. CRITICISM ON LYCIDUS Diction is hard,rhymes uncertain and numbers unpleasing. Beauty if any is in the images and sentiments. LACK OF PASSION There is no passion in “Lycidas: passion runs away from “allusions” and “obscure opinions” Passion plucks no berries “myrtle” and “ivy” nor calls upon “Arethuse” and Mincius nor tells of rough”satyrs” and “farns with cloven heel” Where there is leisure for fiction there is a little grief. UNORIGINAL There is no nature. No truth,no art. Because there is nothing new. Unimaginative. Images are long ago exhausted. Inherent improbability. Dissatisfaction of mind. ALLEGORY It’s a poor know that they never drove a field there were no flocks. The true meaning is so uncertain and remote. Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathendieties with a long train of mythological imagery. Nothing less displays knowledge or less exercise invention then to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone and how one god asks another what is become of Lycidas and how neither god can who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;he who thus praises will confer no honour. Tripling fiction are mixed with sacred truths. Evolution of shepherd to the ecclesiastic pastor. Such equivocations are always unskillful and at least an approach to impiety of which the writer not to have been conscious. Milton has earned his reputation and the blaze of this reputation keep one away from closely examining the poetry. Had one not known who .