 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...acted. Nothing of this applies to authors, considered merely a? authors. Our business is with tlieir books, — to understand and to enjoy them. And, of...contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being1 comprehended and relished. It should seem that the ancients thought in this manner; for of the... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 414 pages
...good and bad qualities of these latter, as can only be obtained by a scrutiny of their private bias, conduces to explain, not only their own public conduct,...relished. It should seem that the ancients thought in (his manner, for of the eminent Greek and Roman poets, few and scanty memorials were, I believe, ever... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1887 - 74 pages
...particular, to be thoughtlessly subjected to the same unhappy scrutiny, since their works — if good — " contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being comprehended and relished." As says the Ettrick Shepherd, "of all retrospects, a narrow one into the private failings of a deceased... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1896 - 428 pages
...extrinsic knowledge, from the intrinsic efficacy of his poetry, to please and to instruct! Of poets especially it is true, that, if their works be good,...necessary to their being comprehended and relished. It is probable that Burns would have proved a still greater poet, if, by strength of reason, he could... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 512 pages
...title of ' Citoyen.' Most especially must the biographer of poets descend from his judgment-seat, — "if their works be good, they contain within themselves...necessary to their being comprehended and relished." If Burns had resisted all the offences that his detractors fling at his fame, " he would have been... | |
 | William Findlay - Physicians - 1898 - 230 pages
...such knowledge might then be necessary to explain his public actions. " Nothing of this," he says, " applies to authors, considered merely as authors....necessary to their being comprehended and relished." Burns's mildnesses, however, could not have been ignored, even if his biographer had held similar views... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 472 pages
...recognized the limitations of such an approach. In the "Letter to Friend of Burns" he tells us that "our business is with their books — to understand...necessary to their being comprehended and relished." 21 Wordsworth draws the distinction between two types of poetry which we might call "objective" and... | |
 | 1917 - 636 pages
...such knowledge might then be necessary to explain his public actions. " Nothing of this," he says, " applies to authors, considered merely as authors....necessary to their being comprehended and relished." But I don't think it is unfair to Dr dime to say that, in view of the different interests he thought... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 404 pages
...been opposed to biographies of poets, believing, as stated in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Bums, that 'if their works be good, they contain within...necessary to their being comprehended and relished.' (Prose Works, iii. 122). But, in dictating to IF in the winter of 1842-3 a long series of notes about... | |
 | Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 318 pages
...corpus of the author's completed works. Even so it approaches redundancy, for poems, Wordsworth claims, "contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being comprehended and relished," especially when they "convey . . . the personal feelings of their authors" (PrW 3:122-23). At most,... | |
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Our business is with their books, to understand and to enjoy them. And of poets more especially it is true, that if their works be good, they contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being comprehended and relished. 
