TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 10: Samuel Johnson on paradise lost

A greater work calls for greater care. A poem, which considered with respect to design may claim the first place and with respect to performance may claim the second place among the productions of human mind. | SAMUEL JOHNSON ON PARADISE LOST A greater work calls for greater care. A poem,which considered with respect to design may claim the first place and with respect to performance may claim the second place among the productions of human mind. EPIC POETRY Writing an epic poem requires the assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Epic poetry teaches the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts,and therefore relate some great truth in the most affecting manner. History,virtue vice,dramatic nature,discriminations of character,tendency of passion,illustrations and images. To put all these together an imagination capable of painting nature and realizing fiction is required. POET’S FIRST DUTY:CONVEY A MORAL The poet’s first duty is to find a moral which has fable will illustrate later on. This holds true for morals of other poems is incidental and consequent;in Milton’s only it is essential and intrinsic. His purpose was most useful

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Literary Theory
• Literary criticism
• Lecture Literary criticism
• Literary work criticism
• The art of judging
• Epic poetry
• Wordsworth’s theory of poetry
• Theory of poetic diction
• Theory of Poetry
• Purposes of literaly criticism
• Peloponessian war
• Plato’s argument against poetry
• Aristotle’s poetics
• Quantitative elements of tragedy
• Samuel johnshon
• Paradise lost
• Paradise regained
• Samuel Johnson
• Classical criticism
• The lyrical ballade
• Biographia literaria