...to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a. poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...

...reads tfiem.'1* To such contemporary attempts to derogate Pope, Johnson countered with the question, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?'" By 18z5, however, the editor of the Oxford edition of Johnson's H'orfe, though otherwise sympathetic...

...to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" The remark comes at the end of Johnson's analysis of the poetry, and the reader is thus referred to...

...to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Shown here is Johnson's comparison of Pope with Dryden, remarkable for the justice with which he discriminates...

...poetry in any limiting way, he does say that Pope will take us as far in that direction as we can go: "if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" Johnson did not believe, as we do, that a major poetic shift was taking place during his generation...

...bosom returns an echo. ('Gray') New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ... If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? There are some hostile points of view and some odd judgements. But these are balanced with influential...

...versification — "Art and diligence have now done their best" — and left a model of poetry for the ages: "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" (3: 251). And progress continues, if not with Gray, then with the improved and unprejudiced common...

...disqualify his writing from being thought of as 'poetry'. Johnson was famously dismissive of the calumny ('If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?'), but still expressed opposition to Warton in terms making clear his acceptance, to some extent, of the...

...to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return. If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...

...agree (albeit reluctantly) with Warton's fundamental assumptions. His response to Warton's challenge - "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" - seems to place Pope outside any narrative of post-Miltonic poetic decay: "Let us look round upon...